Scientists discovered that koalas have fingerprints almost identical to humans, showing how evolution can arrive at the same ...

Koalas might appear to be all cuddly and sleepy, but these star Australian marsupials are full of interesting surprises. Slightly resembling teddy bears, these marsupials are tree-climbing mammals ...

Koalas are endangered in much of Australia now but in in the past there were multiple species living across the continent. The discovery of an ancient relative of the koala helps fill a 30 million ...

A study completed last year by The University of Sydney looked at the entire Koala genome – more than 26,000 genes – and ...

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 ...

An artist’s illustration of the 25 million year old Ditjimanka Lumakoala blackae, featuring (left to right) the wallaby-sized herbivore Muramura williamsi, an extinct koala relative named Madakoala ...

The construction of new homes in Canberra's north remains on hold after a koala was spotted. Now, a dead koala has been found ...

Jonathan Rhodes receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Queensland Government, and the New South Wales Government. He is also a member of the Queensland Government's Koala Advisory ...

According to Prof Pask, one of the key goals of Colossal Biosciences in bringing back extinct species would be to reintroduce ...