Now imagine that same koala, or one quite like it, weighing in at a much more manageable (and potentially cuter) six pounds. Researchers at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, believe that ...

Australia is currently home to the only living ... relationships indicates that Lumakoala is a member of the koala family (Phascolarctidae) or a close relative, but it also resembles several ...

Australia’s Labor Party vowed to create a koala sanctuary in New South Wales to protect the endangered marsupials, but the park is proving contentious. (Video: Michael E. Miller, Zoeann Murphy ...

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A recent report by the Australian Koala Foundation said the iconic marsupial was worth an estimated $3.2 billion per annum to the tourism industry. However, the World Wildlife Fund - Australia ...

“Only in Australia 🇦🇺 haahahahah We came from work now (12:30am) and we just found A KOALA in my bedroom in my bed 🤣🤣🤣,” Fran wrote in her caption alongside footage of the tiny ...

Trains in the area were ordered to slow as the koala — a normally reclusive species and one of Australia’s best-loved animals — came dangerously close to the platform edge. The marsupial ...

Four months earlier, when Emerson was admitted to Northern Rivers Koala Hospital, in New South Wales, Australia, he was so small that volunteers had to feed him with a syringe, dribbling formula ...