A koala wearing green and gold sunglasses is set to give social media a distinctly Aussie flair this Australia Day. Twitter Australia has unveiled its new Australia Day emoji, ahead of celebrations on ...

Staying cool In hot weather koalas seek out and hug the coolest tree trunk they can find, new research has found. According to ecophysiologist, Professor Andrew Krockenberger of James Cook University ...

More, it turns out, if it can find a nice big tree trunk to hug. Australian researchers have found koalas cope with heatwaves by finding large trees with trunks much cooler than the air. “We found ...

Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots. She is the author of the books Live or Die: Survival Hacks, Wizarding World: Movie Magic Amazing Artifacts, The Star ...

Australia’s cuddly koala rarely drinks water and doesn’t have any sweat glands, long leaving scientists to wonder how it cools off in a heatwave. Zoologists yesterday announced they had uncovered the ...