A large-scale genomic study of koalas across eastern Australia has found that populations that went through severe 20th-century bottlenecks are already showing signs of genetic recovery, challenging ...

If you follow media coverage of koalas, you could be forgiven for feeling confused. Recent stories describe a “koala paradox”: endangered in the north of Australia, abundant in the south; genetically ...

As koalas in southern Australia have grown from a few hundred to almost half a million, the marsupials show signs of regaining lost genetic variation.

In the north of Spain, archaeologists have uncovered the chilling remains of a medieval society that lived hidden underground for centuries. The discovery of skeletons marked by disease, inbreeding, ...

Scientists have discovered a potential path out of devastating genetic bottlenecks that could help these Australian animals, ...

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Koalas suffered a massive population decline that left them with dangerously low genetic diversity. However, new genomic research suggests their rapid rebound may be helping reverse some of that ...

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Called “Lamarckian Inheritance,” the theory suggests that those experiences can even be passed down to future generations.