Earlier this year, the Australian government added the koala to the country's list of endangered species. By some counts, only about 100,000 remain in the wild in a country that once boasted a ...

During mating season, the usually quiet koala community comes alive with deep, choppy growls made by males advertising their goods. Now researchers have found that male koalas advertize their size by ...

That luxurious fur. The slow-blinking eyes. The way they hug tree branches. Koalas are one of the world’s cutest animals and hard not to anthropomorphize. But what is this quiet and mysterious animal ...

A female koala licks water off the smooth trunk of an eucalyptus tree after a rainfall in the You Yangs Regional Park, Little River, Victoria, Australia. Reuters WASHINGTON – Scientists have solved a ...

Based on their size, male koalas should have a mating call that sounds like a human baby’s cry. But the call is actually closer in pitch to an elephant’s rumble. That is because koalas have a special ...

KOSCIUSZKO NATIONAL PARK, Australia -- They had been stalking the remote, fire-scorched stretch of forest for an hour in the sizzling midday sun when Karen Marsh spotted something on the trunk of a ...

Koalas may have perfected the life of quarantine long before it became a necessity in 2020. The solitary animals live alone, spending most of their time — about 15-20 hours a day — sleeping. And when ...

A single-dose vaccine to prevent chlamydia outbreak among koalas has been approved by the Australian government. Following over a decade of research, scientists from Australia’s University of the ...

You thought koalas were cute and cuddly, right? Well, you should ask Ebony Churchill, an Australian dairy farmer, about that. Churchill uploaded a video on Facebook over the weekend that shows a big ...

It's estimated that about 100,000 koalas remain in the wild as urbanization envelops their habitats along the Australian east coast. Although... No Space, Mate: Koalas' Habitat Under Threat Earlier ...