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One of the gravest threats to koalas, alongside habitat loss, dog attacks, and getting hit by cars, is chlamydia. In many populations of the beloved marsupial, around 50 percent are infected; in the ...

It’s surprising how easy it is to see a koala every day in Australia’s major cities. The cute, grey marsupial can be found on t-shirts, hanging off people’s bags and pencils, and decorating any decent ...

A new AI-powered camera system could make road crossings less of a nightmare for koalas. Koalas face multiple threats to their survival including deforestation, urbanization, diseases and bushfires.

Australia was once home to a second species of koala that lived only in the west of the continent, where it became extinct around 30,000 years ago. Today, there is only one koala species: ...

A vaccine first developed to protect koalas from a devastating disease is now offering rare insights that could help accelerate human vaccine development for one of the world's most common sexually ...

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 ...

When a plant or animal population is in serious decline, it can enter what's called a genetic bottleneck. Fewer individuals means less genetic diversity, which in turn makes it harder for the species ...