Why are koalas only found in Australia?

Marsupials actually got to Australia, we think, quite late (relatively) and became stranded here. Koalas then evolved from those earlier marsupials well after the continents had split up, leaving them with no way of getting anywhere else. read more

The short answer is luck, timing and circumstance. Marsupials actually got to Australia, we think, quite late (relatively) and became stranded here. Koalas then evolved from those earlier marsupials well after the continents had split up, leaving them with no way of getting anywhere else. read more

The absence of koalas outside Australia is more a matter of geology than anything else. Australia and New Zealand were once part of a supercontinent called Gondwanaland, which broke up into what we know now as South America, Africa, India, Antarctica and Australia. read more