Australia is home to far more than kangaroos and koalas — the continent harbors rare wildlife found nowhere else on Earth.

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 ...

Join us as we explore the incredible Kangaroo Island in South Australia, a paradise for nature lovers. From an off-grid ...

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 ...

"What can we learn from the southern koalas' success to help protect their northern cousins," she asks. "The Black Summer Bushfires of 2019–20 reduced the Kangaroo Island population by 80%, or more ...

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 ...

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.