A sanctuary for up to 1,000 koalas and other wildlife will be established on South Australia's Kangaroo Island next month with plans to facilitate research into a sustainable future on the island for ...

Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks like a conservation success story. Using whole-genome sequencing, researchers ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland in Australia want to freeze koala sex cells in liquid nitrogen, which could ...

In the 1920s, conservationists released just 18 koalas onto South Australia's Kangaroo Island, hoping to save the species from mainland hunting and habitat loss. A century later, that handful of ...

A trip to Australia doesn't guarantee kangaroo and koala sightings. The continent's iconic wildlife can be elusive unless you head to the zoo, venture into the outback or, better yet, visit Kangaroo ...

A wild life expert has voiced fears a new strain of bird flu could impact some of Australia’s most iconic creatures.

Kangaroo Island koalas have many more, and longer, stretches of identical DNA inherited from both parents. Scientists call these stretches runs of homozygosity, and they are a hallmark of inbreeding.