Jul 15, 2025 by News Staff

Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) spend around 10 min per day on the ground, but this ground-time is associated with two-thirds of recorded koala deaths,...

Oct 4, 2023 by Natali Anderson

Fluorescence — the absorption of short wavelengths of light and re-emission of longer wavelengths of light — is widely distributed among mammals...

Sep 6, 2023 by News Staff

The newly-discovered species, Lumakoala blackae, was comparable in size to the smallest-known members of the koala family (Phascolarctidae), with body-mass...

May 6, 2020 by News Staff

A team of Australian scientists and wildlife ecologists has captured koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time. Old female koala showing natural...

Jul 3, 2018 by News Staff

The Koala Genome Consortium, a research group that includes 54 scientists from 29 different institutions across seven countries, has produced the first...

Jun 5, 2014 by News Staff

 Koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) cope with extreme heat by resting against cooler tree trunks, according to a new study led by Dr Michael Kearney from...

Dec 3, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of biologists led by Dr Benjamin D. Charlton from the University of Sussex has discovered that koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) possess...

May 29, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of koala that lived in rainforests of northern Australia some 20 million years ago. Skull of the...