Koala intruder in bedroom startles couple getting home from work. Something soft and cuddly on a bed can be a welcome sight if that something is inanimate, like a pillow — but in the early hours of Wednesday morning an Adelaide couple were forced to contend with a friendly, if unexpected, intruder.

A couple arrived at their home in Australia after midnight and found their bedroom occupied by an unexpected intruder -- a koala.

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Soak in the cuteness of this baby koala after her first checkup at the San Diego Zoo.

A biker in South Australia stopped when she saw a koala and it came up to her looking for water.

Australian soldiers from the 9th Brigade used their day off to help feed displaced koalas affected by bushfires at Cleland Wildlife Park.

Abandoned as a puppy because he was too obsessive, Bear the dog is now rescuing koalas.

Rescuers are racing to save koalas as a barrage of bushfires roar across the country.

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New funding will help a Nerang-based conservation group to build a 'fodder farm' for recovering wildlife.

Water stations reduce heat stress and other effects of drought and extreme weather events on koalas and other animals, new research finds.

Some koalas may be pickier eaters than others due to the mix of microbes in their lower gastrointestinal tract, but faecal transplants could help them diversify their diet, a new study suggests.

Koala chlamydia has had devastating effects in Queensland and New South Wales, but a population believed to entirely free of the disease on Kangaroo Island is being heralded as a potential lifeline.

A koala joey, only months old, is defying the odds after being rescued when her mother was hit by a car in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast. Pixie is now in home care and being carried in a makeshift pouch 24 hours a day.

Pixie weighed less than 200 grams when she was rescued after her mother was hit by a car. Carers thought she was too tiny to survive, but they were wrong.

Early morning walkers in Port Macquarie received a surprise when a koala came walking down the middle of a popular breakwall path. The sighting has sparked renewed concerns about habitat loss and declining koala numbers.

Submissions to a NSW inquiry into koala protection call for design guidelines to protect the marsupial's habitat, which is under threat from housing developments.

Wazza the koala has left carers astounded after she was collected by a car and endured a 10km trip down a major NSW roadway, only to bolt up a tree afterwards.

The Port Macquarie koala hospital fears more than 350 koalas may have died in a bushfire south of the town, with staff frustrated they cannot yet access the site.

Injured koalas receive life-saving treatment after surviving devastating bushfires on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

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Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior. A new study describes the animal's drinking habit in the wild for the first time.

A team of Australian scientists and wildlife ecologists has captured koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time. Each day, wild koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) eat around 510 grams of fresh eucalyptus leaves, and the water in the foliage they feed on is believed to contribute about 75% of their water intake in both [...]

Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior - how these tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia consume enough water to live.

Enigmatic marsupial has previously been thought to absorb almost all its moisture from eating leaves

With the all clear to begin clearing land at Mount Gilead for a 1,700-home housing estate, there have been renewed calls for a national park isolating the area's koalas.

The NSW Government will discuss establishing a national park south of Sydney to protect the state's last chlamydia-free koala colony under threat by urban expansion.

Iggy Azalea lent her star power to help an Australian animal hospital raise money to care for koalas and other wildlife injured by the bushfires ravaging the country.

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Serena Williams was seen flaunting koala-themed nail polish on the court on Monday as she took on Russian opponent Anastasia Potapova in Melbourne Park, on the first day of the Aus Open.

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The teenagers filmed the inside of their car brimming with koalas in Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide, and the clip was shared to Reddit on Sunday.

Once the koalas are located, the team and wildlife care experts can give the animals the support they need to survive in the wild.

Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior. A new study describes the animal's drinking habit in the wild for the first time.