Ten-month-old Emerson fixed his big brown eyes on me and yawned. Still groggy from a nap, the koala rubbed his face, then stuck out an expectant paw. The nurse escorting me through his enclosure ...
The new study found that they lost their arboreal habitat due to a drying climate, a dire warning for the modern-day ...
A strange fossil skull found in a cave in western Australia has helped scientists identify a completely unknown koala species that vanished thousands of years ago. For more than a century, its remains ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Labor Party of Australia’s New South Wales state made a 2023 campaign promise to establish a Great Koala National Park to protect the iconic ...
SHEAS NOB STATE FOREST, Australia — The ecologist drove his weathered pickup truck through thick and shady eucalyptus forest. But as he reached a ridgeline, the woodland suddenly gave way to a ...
Distinct grooves, or dimples, in the cheekbones of koala skulls found in Western Australia have helped identify a new species of extinct koala. The WA or dimpled koala (Phascolarctos sulcomaxilliaris) ...