To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only 500 grams but is the ...

The discovery of an underweight koala, with several high-tech monitoring devices attached to its body as it wanders the streets of a bustling Aussie suburb, has sparked calls for transparency from the ...

Southwestern Sydney's koalas have avoided the chlamydia outbreak threatening the entire species. But their isolation has left them extremely inbred.