Australia has just taken a historic step to protect one of its most beloved animals. For the first time in the world, regulators have approved a vaccine to shield koalas from chlamydia, a bacterial ...

Koalas have long captured people's hearts and minds thanks to their cuddly features and seemingly relaxed demeanor. Now, in a collaborative study by the Koala Genome Consortium -- involving 54 ...

The koala challenges the kangaroo as the most iconic Australian marsupial. It is a very peculiar animal, spectacularly specialized, living in eucalyptus trees and surviving almost entirely on their ...

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The Guardian reported that New South Wales Premier Chris Minns is expanding the protected areas in the northeast of the state ...

Koalas are instantly recognizable icons of Australian wildlife. Unfortunately, they've also become icons of endangerment in the age of climate catastrophe. The IUCN Red List labels koalas as a ...

The koala is an unusual creature. Native to Australia and a bit bigger than a raccoon, it spends most of its time in eucalyptus trees, gorging on leaves that are toxic to nearly every other animal on ...

You are what you eat. Chowing down on a giant bowl of garlic cloves will make you smell like garlic. The same goes for onions. For younger koalas, however, their odor is usually a little more pleasant ...

There are two subspecies of koalas: adustus, the northern or Queensland koala, and victor, the southern koala. Koalas are known for their teddy bear-like appearance. They are often referred to as ...

Sequencing of the koala genome has revealed some interesting qualities about these marsupials on their sense of taste. They have more bitter taste receptor genes than any other Australian marsupial, ...