Koalas have long captured people's hearts and minds thanks to their cuddly features and seemingly relaxed demeanor. Now, in a collaborative study by the Koala Genome Consortium -- involving 54 ...

A hungry koala nicknamed "Claude" has returned to a plant nursery to rob them of their delicious vegetation and brought some friends of his along. Claude was busted last year for munching his way ...

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 ...

Koalas are pretty darn cute, but...they aren’t the brightest bulb on the continent. They will only eat eucalyptus leaves off ...

COLUMBIA — Lottie and her daughter Charlotte spent most of their Tuesday as they do the rest of the week: Resting peacefully atop a eucalyptus-adorned tree at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, sometimes ...

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 ...

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 ...

The koala is an unusual creature. Native to Australia and a bit bigger than a raccoon, it spends most of its time in eucalyptus trees, gorging on leaves that are toxic to nearly every other animal on ...

Australia plans to build a national park twice the size of the UK’s Lake District to protect koalas, greater gliders, 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 ...

Sequencing of the koala genome has revealed some interesting qualities about these marsupials on their sense of taste. They have more bitter taste receptor genes than any other Australian marsupial, ...