Think koalas are bears? Think again. Explore their marsupial traits, fascinating adaptations, and why protecting their ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Koalas are unique in the animal kingdom, living on a eucalyptus diet that would kill other creatures and drinking so little their name comes from the Dharug word gula, meaning "no water." Today, many ...

A remarkable discovery has been made in the Australian region of Newcastle, published in the journal of Biological Conservation. Through a survey led by the University of Newcastle, thermal ...

An adult koala eats a eucalyptus leaf. Joeys can't break down the toxic, fibrous plants on their own yet. Photograph By David Marks/National Geographic When it’s time to feed the kids, koala moms do ...

A female koala licks water off the smooth trunk of an eucalyptus tree after a rainfall in the You Yangs Regional Park, Little River, Victoria, Australia. Reuters WASHINGTON – Scientists have solved a ...

Scientists discovered that koalas have fingerprints almost identical to humans, showing how evolution can arrive at the same ...

It can be challenging to get a fussy eater to broaden their food choices, especially when they are a koala. Koalas that eat different species of eucalypts have different gut microbes Faecal ...

It’s not surprising that a gardening project in Encino leaves people stumped. Who would expect, after all, to find a koala food farm located between a quiet residential neighborhood and the Ventura ...

Koalas are herbivores (specifically browsing folivores) and feed almost exclusively on the leaves of the eucalyptus plant (gum trees). Sometimes, they will also eat the soft stems, flowers, and ...

You are what you eat. Chowing down on a giant bowl of garlic cloves will make you smell like garlic. The same goes for onions. For younger koalas, however, their odor is usually a little more pleasant ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Australia's cutest marsupial is now "functionally extinct." Experts at the Australian Koala Foundation announced on May 10 that they believe no ...