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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A dead koala has been found near where a koala sighting put the brakes on the development of a new Canberra suburb.The ...

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 NSW government announces the proposed boundary of what could become the state's largest national park on the mid north coast.

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