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A potentially devastating disease has been found in one state's last healthy koala population, further endangering the ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

New research into how a retrovirus is spreading across populations of wild koalas in Queensland, Australia is leading to a ...

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in the news after an ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...

One example is koala retrovirus, a condition all koalas are born with in the wild and in managed care, which scientists are trying to understand better. “It’s all connected,” Thomas said.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, who have been stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) for nearly ten months, may finally return to Earth on March 16, according to ...

Wildlife rescuers on Minjerribah/North Stradbroke Island, off Brisbane, are reporting strange behaviour from the island's koala colony as ex-Cyclone Alfred makes for the coast. "Koalas at the ...

Koalas, often perceived as the endearing poster children of Australian wildlife, are as unique in their dietary habits as in their appearance. Most people associate these adorable marsupials with ...

NSW Forestry Corp said this was an overestimate. A logging site in Wild Cattle Creek State Forest, part of the assessment area for the Great Koala National Park.Credit: Janie Barrett “I find it ...

A koala made itself right at home in the absence of humans, finding its way into bed. The wild marsupial entered the home of international students Fran and Bruno Dias Rufino through a dog door, 7News ...