In the late 1700s, English-speaking settlers happened upon a small animal in Australia that looked like a small, gray bear with a pouch. It was soon given the scientific name Phascolarctos ...

Physical Features: Although commonly referred to as bears, koalas are actually marsupials ... toward their heads, but the koala’s pouch opens out toward their hind legs. Koalas are arboreal ...

If koalas could talk, they might say: "Hey, humans. We're not bears." And they'd be right. Though koalas are often called "koala bears," they are not bears. In fact, they're not even that closely ...

Zookeepers said the koala joey, which started out as an embryo the size of a jellybean, made its way into its mom's pouch in late May, where it will finish its final stages of "pouch life ...

But when the breeding season starts, the pouch becomes a completely different ... have been analysing proteins collected by washing out koala pouches. They know the mix of proteins has ...

A koala joey has emerged from its mother’s pouch at the Los Angeles Zoo ... Often referred to as a “koala bear,” koalas are really marsupials like kangaroos, opossums and wombats.

It's a big, scary world out there, but this newborn koala isn't afraid to face it. This yet to be named koala is the first of Australia Zoo's 13 recent births to emerge from his mother's punch and ...

A koala joey has ventured out of its pouch for the first time, giving the world a first (full) look at the 7-month-old cutie.The koala was born July 5 at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium to mom ...

Zookeepers said the koala joey, which started out as an embryo the size of a jellybean, made its way into its mom's pouch in late May, where it will finish its final stages of "pouch life ...