They’re cute and soft – though they might probably bite your finger if they mistrust you – but did you know that koalas are living fossils that have been around for at least “25 million years”?
We might think that koalas are lazy but clinging to tree branches on a hot day is a clever strategy to keep cool that cannot be easily explained away by a Darwinian story.
Australia has a wide variety of living fossils, from the Wollemi Pine and cycads to the Kangaroo Tail (Xanthorrhoea australis), which, by the way, is a tree.