Holding a koala in your arms, feeling its paws on your shoulder and gazing into its cute beady eyes - for many tourists this is a long-cherished dream. But many travellers to Australia may be ...

Standing around 3 feet high, the modern koala is roughly 25 pounds of claws and teeth, tufty ears and fluffy white marsupial tummy. You could give one a hug — experts suggest that they prefer it if ...

Leonie Helm is a Newsweek Life Reporter and is based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on all things life, from abolishing the monarchy to travel to aesthetic medicine. Leonie joined Newsweek in ...

The wildfires have devastated the koala population. Soldiers with the Australian army came to the rescue of several hungry koalas saved from the bushfires ravaging the country. Several servicemen and ...