Scientists studying Western Australian koala fossils have found the modern koala was not the only koala species in the recent past, and that WA’s regionally extinct species was its own distinctive ...

A new analysis of fossilised koala skulls and bones has revealed an extinct species of koala lived in WA until a few thousand ...

Koalas are a nationally endangered and iconic species in Australia, yet their populations are rapidly declining due to habitat loss, fragmentation, and disease, and very little is known about the fine ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

When examining the cheekbones experts noticed that the cheekbones differed from modern koalas, with distinct grooves ...

An international research consortium with the participation of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is building the world's largest koala pedigree genomic database. This ...

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