In the 1920s, conservationists released just 18 koalas onto South Australia's Kangaroo Island, hoping to save the species from mainland hunting and habitat loss. A century later, that handful of ...

HEALESVILLE, Australia – Dindi started to move. The 11.5-year-old koala had started out on a far branch, placidly eating eucalyptus leaves. Suddenly he stopped. He looked over the sea of faces ...

Australia loves to advertise itself with animals. Kangaroos are our coat of arms. Koalas run the global marketing department. Brumbies are immortalised in Banjo Paterson’s verse. We use them as ...

In the morning meadow, a young koala who had climbed down from a eucalyptus tree met a kangaroo mother.Oh, a kangaroo!Good ...

Kangaroo Island in South Australia is home to a large, mostly disease-free koala population which, at first glance, looks like a conservation success story. Using whole-genome sequencing, researchers ...

This ancient kangaroo really knew how to chew the scenery. Sthenurine kangaroos, also called "short-faced" kangaroos, are extinct now. But these marsupials lived in Australia around 42,000 years ago.

Kangaroo Island koalas have many more, and longer, stretches of identical DNA inherited from both parents. Scientists call these stretches runs of homozygosity, and they are a hallmark of inbreeding.