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'Eat a Koala' Campaign Promotes Business, Creates Controversy

Want to succeed in business and real estate development? Eat a koala. That's the message promoted by an angry Australian businessman who contends that local government is more interested in protecting cute marsupials than "saving" business. Queensland local Graham Parker has designed and distributed car stickers...

Tasmanian Devils Almost Extinct: 5 Facts About the Endangered Marsupials

They're tough. They're carnivorous. They're iconic critters, even though they're neither cute nor cuddly. And soon they may be gone. Scientists are reporting that the Tasmanian devil is nearing extinction because of a highly infectious form of cancer that has wiped out 90 percent of the population. The cancer, called...

Koala Population Ravaged by Chlamydia

(Sept. 17) -- The world's koala population is being ravaged by an epidemic that would seem at odds with the animal's image as the cuddly emblem of Australia. According to researchers, 50 to 80 percent of the marsupials are infected with a disease commonly associated with human promiscuity: chlamydia. That's right,...