While Save the Koala Day officially took place on September 26, it’s never too late to celebrate one of Australia’s most ...

Two specially trained dogs found seven surviving koalas amid a burnt-out forest in Queensland, Australia. Two months ago, a ...

Koalas are at risk of extinction – but freezing their sperm and eggs could help to turn this around. Australian scientists found that investing in koala reproduction may help to buy time for the ...

Every child loves a teddy bear. Well, what animal do you think looks like a teddy bear? You guessed it — koalas. They look so much like living teddy bears that many people actually call them koala ...

The word "koala" is thought to originate from one of the Australian Aboriginal languages, Dharug, which roughly translates to ‘no drink’ or ‘no water’. And this might explain why. In the Australian ...

With their specialized diet of almost exclusively eucalyptus leaves, do koalas require specialist microbes to help them digest their food? Scientists investigated the composition of bacterial ...

Gaylene Thomas, a wildlife care manager at the San Diego Zoo, oversees two teams that care for a variety of species, ...

While wildfires in Australia have destroyed homes and claimed lives, they are also taking a toll on the country's ecosystem, possibly wiping out entire species of plants and animals. The University of ...

The pitch of male koalas' mating calls is about 20 times lower than it should be, given the Australian marsupial's relatively small size. Now, researchers have discovered their secret: koalas have a ...

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Almost 2,000 native species are officially listed as “threatened” in Australia – but how many have you actually heard of? Each year, the federal government holds the Threatened Species Bake Off, a ...