As temperatures climb, koalas may descend from their arboreal refuge in search of water, making them more visible and potentially more reliant on human assistance for survival. Generally ...

The video is just 34 seconds long. It was taken on a handheld camera and it’s shaky, but there’s no mistaking the devastation ...

This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s two in the morning and a koala is caught in barbed wire on a fence, like a prisoner trying to escape. A phone rings ...

Koala Chlamydia vaccine possible with DNA study ... "If you think about the advances that have been made in human medicine following the sequencing of the genome, we're at the point in humans ...

The koala's watery, red-rimmed eyes are the only ... The QUT team has been developing an implant – inspired by a human contraceptive device – that dissolves after four weeks to provide the ...

A koala which drew wide attention after being rescued from an Australian bushfire has died, after failing to recover from his burns. The koala, dubbed Lewis, had been taken to an animal hospital ...

With their fluffy round ears and large, black noses, six koalas arrived in Japan on Oct. 25, 1984, as gifts from Australia. Two each were sent to zoos in Tokyo, Nagoya and Kagoshima as goodwill ...

Clarence is in Port Stephens, on the NSW north coast, to join locals helping rehabilitate injured koalas and restore their habitat. Car strike is a key cause of koala injury. Volunteer Emma Bowen ...

It's a new chapter in the story of human mismanagement of the land and its wildlife since European settlement in the 18th century. After all, koalas were only introduced to Kangaroo Island in the ...