The whales, named Koala and Curlew, “appear to be in good health,” officials says. However, they face dangers from potentially deadly boat strikes due to being close to shore at a tourism hot spot, ...

"What we found is that there is a single genetic switch that has been activated in about 30% of the koala population in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, suppressing the retrovirus," Professor ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.

Wildfires continue to rage in southeastern Australia, devastating coastal areas and threatening one of the nation’s most iconic species -- the koala. Dozens of bushfires have raged across ...

Koalas from a population north of the Brisbane River have evolved a unique genomic immunity to the killer retrovirus ...