It seems that everyone is trying to get into the Christmas spirit this year — even koalas. An Australian family was in for a big surprise this week when they discovered a koala had wandered into their ...

The rescue team said the koala was "desperate to get in the Christmas spirit" and "wanted to be the fairy on the Christmas tree" Benjamin VanHoose is the Senior News Editor on the TV team at PEOPLE.

COROMANDEL VALLEY, Australia -- Picture a Christmas tree and you'll probably think of baubles, tinsel and fairy lights, but one Australian woman came home to find an unusual adornment: A koala.

Hey, that’s not an ornament. A family in Australia was recently shocked to find an intruder hiding in their Christmas tree — a young koala. When the McCormick family returned to their home in ...

ADELAIDE, SA — An Australian family came home to find a surprise ornament in their Christmas tree. A juvenile Koala had broken in and attached itself to the 6-foot plastic tree. Amanda McCormick of ...

A darling Koala Bear residing at Australia’s famous Taronga Zoo on the shores of Sydney Harbor is taking social media by storm simply by sleeping. The adorable creature is going viral after the zoo’s ...

Koalas are iconic Australian animals, loved for their teddy-bear-like appearance. But beneath their soft and seemingly cuddly exterior, they have unique behaviors, a specialized diet, and many ...

New York may have had Rocky the little owl in its Christmas tree this year but an Australian woman has that beat — she had a koala in hers. The tree-dwelling marsupial “wandered” into the southern ...