Gold Coast woman Zoe Scharenguivel was driving with her two kids in the car when she spotted the endangered marsupial on a ...

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

A unique genetic adaptation in koalas north of the Brisbane River in Australia was offering new hope for the species' ...

Koalas are facing a shocking health crisis: widespread chlamydia infections — so are they born with the STD and how do they ...

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

We need to ensure ongoing connectivity between all koala populations to maintain their ... "Without diversity, endangered species risk succumbing to disease outbreaks and environmental threats." ...

By some estimates, their numbers have halved in the last 20 years, due to a number of threats including habitat reduction, disease, drought and fires. When Max discovers koala droppings ...

Koalas infected with the retrovirus are at a higher risk of chlamydia, which has devastated populations in Queensland and New South Wales. The virus has also been linked to lymphomas that have caused ...

Seven months after her birth, a koala joey has emerged from her ... have ravaged the natural habitat of these creatures. Disease and fragmentation -- when habitats are separated due to natural ...

Koala populations are being pushed toward extinction due to habitat loss and fragmentation, inappropriate fire regimes, climate change impacts, disease, and feral dogs and cats. Many of the koala ...