The koalas are threatened. Can their genome help us save them?
The koala is an unusual creature. Native to Australia and a bit bigger than a raccoon, it spends most of its time in eucalyptus trees, gorging on leaves that are toxic to nearly every other animal on the planet.
The koala sleeps about 22 hours a day and spends the remainder of its time eating and resting. It might spend 10 minutes a day moving, experts say, usually from one tree to another.
It spends so much of its life sitting around in trees that it has evolved a cartilaginous pad at the end of its
