Thanks to the growing support from Toowoomba volunteers, a record number of koala sightings were recorded this November, and ...

The marsupial lion, which vanished around 40,000 years ago, was a muscular ambush predator about the size of a modern lion.

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 ...

This photo taken on Nov. 23, 2025 shows a kangaroo at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia. Established in 1927, ...

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Koalas have joined the menagerie of creatures with fully deciphered genetic instruction books, or genomes. A large team of researchers published the detailed look at the koala genome online July 2 in ...

Starvation now threatens one of Australia’s few disease-free koala populations due to a lack of habitat, as wildlife rescue ...

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 ...

As catastrophic bushfires spread across parts of Australia, misinformation about one of the region’s most beloved animals, the koala, spreads, too. Areas of Australia started to burn in September 2019 ...

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 ...