Scientists discovered that koalas have fingerprints almost identical to humans, showing how evolution can arrive at the same ...

While Save the Koala Day officially took place on September 26, it’s never too late to celebrate one of Australia’s most ...

A baby koala taken into care after being abandoned by his own mother has been given an adorable name. The 11-month old joey is being raised at the Rainforestation Wildlife sanctuary at Kuranda in Far ...

Global wildlife populations have fallen by 60 percent since 1970, and koalas are declining at an even faster rate. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) released the Living Planet Report 2018 on Tuesday, Oct.

To understand what it means to be human, you have to understand koalas. Or, to be more precise, you have to understand how they are dying from a bizarre viral outbreak that has been raging for the ...

Eight percent of your genome derives from retroviruses that inserted themselves into human sex cells millions of years ago. In a recent study, scientists discovered that 39 different koala ...

It has been a stressful year for Australia’s koalas. Their health and natural environment, however, have been under threat for a long time. Bushfires, habitat fragmentation, vehicle collisions and dog ...

Aug. 7 (UPI) --The study of a virus infecting koalas is helping researchers better understand the accumulation of junk DNA in the human genome. "Retroviruses insert their genome into their host's ...