Koalas are a nationally endangered and iconic species in Australia, yet their populations are rapidly declining due to ...

In a video on YouTube shared by Newsflare, two koalas got into a fight at a South Australian animal sanctuary called Kangaroo ...

Although koalas are a relatively widespread species, they are also extremely widely dispersed and rarely found in high densities. This might put isolated populations at risk of extinction.

For most of the day and night, koalas barely move. They nap curled into tree forks, or chew carefree on eucalyptus leaves.

Koalas have a reputation as one of the dimmest mammals currently living, and given their preferred food source, it's a wonder they're even alive.

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Only one species exists, although, as the Australian Koala Foundation points out, there is no scientific consensus on whether or not there may be two, or even three, subspecies of koala out there.

But koalas aren’t moving closer to people—people are moving into koala habitats. The “secret” population, as it’s described ...

“Koalas, like many other species, prefer fertile moist habitats that are good for agriculture and cities,” he says. “And there are many other wonderful species in those locations that most people know ...

"Koalas are an iconic Australian species," Samuel Phillips, a molecular biologist at the University of the Sunshine Coast who helped to develop the vaccine, told As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

Koalas are very hard to see at night. Their gray fur blurs with the bitumen on dimly lit roads, and they move deceptively quickly for a marsupial often seen languidly munching on leaves high in trees.