Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

The rescued koala is getting stronger each day after receiving care to help him breathe Port Stephens Koala Hospital Reggie the koala has reached a key milestone in his recovery He was previously very ...

A new AI-powered camera system is being experimented in the Australian state of Queensland to identify koalas crossing the road in the dark. The cameras could be incorporated into smart road signs to ...

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most-threatened populations now displaying a surprising diversity. “It still looks like ...

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Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most threatened populations now displaying surprising diversity. “It still looks like they’re ...

Reporter Paul Linnman and photographer Doug Brazil visited the Oregon Coast on November 12, 1970 during what eventually became known as the Exploding Whale Incident. (KATU) FLORENCE, Ore. (Amazing ...

Between 500 and 1,000 koalas were estimated to live in Victoria, Australia, in the 1920s. AJ Penrose via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Around a decade ago, koalas nearly vanished from southeastern ...

“Just keep looking up,” our guide instructs us as we start walking through a small tree-dotted park near the ferry terminal on Raymond Island. “Koalas are everywhere.” It sounds too good to be true, ...

Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

Andrew Weeks is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Director of Cesar Australia, a small research based company that works in the fields of sustainable agriculture and ...

A rapid koala rebound in southeastern Australia is also boosting their genetic variation, showing one way out of an extinction death spiral. After nearly disappearing from the region over a century ...