Australian authorities on Wednesday charged a landowner and two companies with more than 250 counts of animal cruelty over the deaths of dozens of koalas during a clearance operation last year.

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Aug. 14 (UPI) --A traveler on a busy Queensland, Australia, road captured video of the moment an 82-year-old man rescued -- and subsequently scolded -- a koala that wandered into the middle of the ...

An infamous koala nicknamed "Claude" has conducted a broad-daylight heist on the Eastern Forest Nursery in South Gundurimba, New South Wales, Australia. Last year, workers at the nursery – which grows ...

Created by Michael Cusack, the animated comedy about an unwanted Aussie superhero is superficially strange but inherently familiar. Despite often being referred to as such, koalas aren’t actually ...

Australia declared the koala endangered in the eastern part of the country Friday, with signs of climate change contributing to the marsupials’ declining numbers. The country's minister for the ...

A kind Irishman who stopped traffic to help a koala across a busy Australian highway has been praised for the sweet gesture. Will Thornton went viral this week after he was filmed carrying out the ...

The animal was born to Ash, who herself was the first koala born after the devastating Black Summer bushfires of 2019 and 2020 Kate Hogan was Director of Digital Specials and Features at PEOPLE. She ...

A koala joey has emerged from its mother’s pouch at the Los Angeles Zoo, which announced the unnamed baby’s appearance on Wednesday, May 3 — also known as Wild Koala Day, celebrated in Australia. He ...