Queensland

In this photo provided by Queensland Police Service and taken on Nov. 6, 2016, a koala looks out from a handbag.

Koalas are listed as a vulnerable species under federal environment law in the states of Queensland and New South Wales, where bushfires have destroyed vast areas of habitat in recent weeks.

Some towns have gone from drought to flood in a day as heavy rain has fallen in New South Wales, and parts of Queensland.

Police in Australia report a truck driver in Queensland Tuesday managed to fend off a venomous snake he encountered in the front seat of his vehicle as he drove along the highway at more than 100 kilometers per hour.

Researchers from the University of Queensland have discovered that the poison from the Fraser Island funnel-web spider in eastern Australia contains what could be a life-saving molecule, or peptide.

For the first time in a decade, researchers managed to film a threatened desert marsupial in outback Queensland in June.

Kowari are a little, tiny carnivorous marsupial that lives in outback, or arid, western Queensland and also down in South Australia. They are a very charismatic little guy. Very fast, very inquisitive.

Australian paleontologists have discovered a new species of a prehistoric flying reptile in outback Queensland.

With a spearlike mouth and a wingspan estimated at 7 meters, they have said the pterosaur would have “soared like a dragon” above the vast inland sea that once covered much of outback Queensland.

The name of the new species — Thapunngaka shawi — recognizes the Indigenous peoples of the Richmond area where the fossil was found, using words from the now-extinct language of the Wanamara Nation in Queensland.