Two male koalas slowly climbed trees and snacked on eucalyptus leaves Tuesday at their new home at Brookfield Zoo Chicago, as hundreds excitedly waited in line for the chance to see the marsupials ...

The Australian Firefighters Calendar is celebrating 30 years by offering a new batch of calendars filled with amazing animals and shirtless firefighters that give back Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor ...

A few weeks ago, I learned about a fascinating new book by Australian biologist Danielle Clode titled, Koala: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future, and I couldn't wait to read it. Now that I have ...

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The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament ...

Australian scientists have begun vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia in an ambitious field trial in New South Wales. The aim is to test a method for protecting the beloved marsupials against a ...

Deborah Lee Rose and Susan Kelly, photos by Susan Kelly. National Geographic, $16.95 (32p) ISBN 978-1-4263-1371-4 In a hopeful story about animal rehabilitation in Australia, an orphaned koala joey is ...

The koala’s nose is distinctive—it’s a big black leathery rectangle in the middle of a round, grey face that’s surprisingly soft to the touch. And every koala nose is unique. A study of 108 wild ...

Romane H. Cristescu is a Postdoc Research Fellow in Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast. Celine Frere is a Senior lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast. This story originally featured on ...

A video on Reddit of a cute koala climbing onto a woman for a cuddle has attracted more jokes than jealousy. In the video, which has amassed over 50 thousand upvotes, a woman can be seen waiting ...

At a time when heartbreak usually comes with frustration, heavy reactions and endless overthinking, one animal has taken the internet’s attention for doing something completely different. Koalas, ...