The 3rd Annual New York Wildlife Conservation Film Festival (WFCC.org) runs from January 30 – February 2, 2013. Ahead of the event, Mongabay.com is running a series of Q&As with filmmakers and ...

Cute but cantankerous, koalas are making a surprising recovery from a genetic bottleneck, with their once most threatened ...

A common sexually transmitted disease is proving a major cause of death among Australia’s cute koalas, researchers said this week. Chlamydia, an infectious bacterial disease, renders many females ...

Sure, they’re cute, and they certainly look cuddly. But here are a few other, more surprising things you might not have known about koalas. 1. Koalas hug trees to keep cool. Scientists used thermal ...

Not exactly sure who's doing the PR for koala bears nowadays, but they're really not doing a good job. Despite my colleague Ted Berg's terrible take that koala's aren't actually bears, it's my ...

A video on Reddit of a cute koala climbing onto a woman for a cuddle has attracted more jokes than jealousy. In the video, which has amassed over 50 thousand upvotes, a woman can be seen waiting ...

Just weeks after social media went wild over photos of baby koala Phantom hugging his mother Lizzy while she underwent surgery, the Australia Zoo announced that both koalas have returned to their ...

You thought koalas were cute and cuddly, right? Well, you should ask Ebony Churchill, an Australian dairy farmer, about that. Churchill uploaded a video on Facebook over the weekend that shows a big ...