SYDNEY, Australia – Koalas are on track to become extinct in New South Wales before 2050, according to a report from the Australian state’s parliament. A committee released the report Tuesday after a ...
Once-threatened koala populations in parts of Australia are showing surprising signs of genomic recovery, according to a study that establishes a new way to assess the health of a population. It ...
Andrew Weeks is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne and a Director of Cesar Australia, a small research based company that works in the fields of sustainable agriculture and ...
Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Koalas are an endangered species. This was not always the case, as the wild, adorable marsupials were once widespread across the ...
Between 500 and 1,000 koalas were estimated to live in Victoria, Australia, in the 1920s. AJ Penrose via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Around a decade ago, koalas nearly vanished from southeastern ...
Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most threatened populations now displaying surprising diversity. “It still looks like they’re ...