Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult koala eats a eucalyptus leaf. Joeys can't break down the toxic, fibrous plants on their own yet. Photograph By David ...

Walk through an Australian eucalyptus forest and a sharp, minty smell may drift through the air. Eucalyptus leaves release ...

Koala mothers have a unique way of feeding their babies. They provide a special substance called pap, which is a form of their own poop. This pap contains essential microbes that help young koalas ...

Jorge Trujillo was hanging precariously off the high branches of a tree near Lake Merced when he was scouted. A former San Francisco Zoo keeper spotted Trujillo landscaping and stopped to tell him how ...

Mother Nature doesn’t really care if something looks cute or gross. If it works, it works. And when it comes to raising babies in the wild, animal mums don’t mess around. Birds gulp down fish to ...

Koalas in the wild pick and choose their leaves from a vast 'menu' of trees just as humans choose from a restaurant menu, new Australian research shows. But it's not fussiness that drives the koalas ...