It has been a stressful year for Australia’s koalas. Their health and natural environment, however, have been under threat for a long time. Bushfires, habitat fragmentation, vehicle collisions and dog ...

For more than a decade, veterinary researchers in Queensland, Australia, have been vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia, ...

Australian scientists have developed and tested a chlamydia vaccine for koalas, producing over a decade of field data that could inform human vaccine design. The findings highlight the value of ...

A video on Reddit of a cute koala climbing onto a woman for a cuddle has attracted more jokes than jealousy. In the video, which has amassed over 50 thousand upvotes, a woman can be seen waiting ...

A vaccine first developed to protect koalas from a devastating disease is now offering rare insights that could help accelerate human vaccine ...

A koala virus could help researchers explain millions of years of accumulated ‘junk’ DNA in the human genome. An international team of researchers – including scientists from The University of ...

Commentary: Reports abound that recent bushfires have pushed the cuddly marsupial to the brink. The species has actually been under threat for much longer. Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and ...