Quokkas are small marsupials about the size of domestic cats. They are 16 to 21 inches long and weigh 5.5 to 11 pounds. The quokka has a stocky build with short, rounded ears. Their fur is ...

Thanks to a new video shared by Pubity, the world is now being introduced to the cutest animal to ever grace our planet. Meet the quokka. A viral video posted to Instagram shows an adorable quokka ...

The quokka, an impossibly-cute marsupial that's taken social media by storm, is facing unexpected threats in its southwestern Australia home. The quokka, an adorable marsupial hailing from ...

One odd genre of fake photographs we encounter often involve stuffed animals or toys passed off as real animals. For instance, the "world's cutest rodent," this "short-tailed weasel," this "zunzuncito ...

Tourism on the Australian island went up 15 percent last year, bringing in funds to go toward research and preservation for the island's 12,000 quokkas Tourists don't have to work hard to score a ...

ROTTNEST ISLAND, Australia—Alyssa Beaty, a 20-year-old from Minnesota, admits her No. 1 reason for studying abroad in Perth was its beaches. Another top draw was the chance to bag a “quokka selfie,” a ...

The detection of a baby quokka has sparked hope the fragile population decimated by the devastating Northcliffe bushfires in 2015 is recovering. A survey of the fire zone by the World Wildlife Fund ...

Scroll through the Instagram account of tennis great Roger Federer and among his snippets on great matches and life on the pro circuit you’ll find a photo of him taken in 2017 on Western Australia’s ...

It'd be hard to tell if a quokka was angry at you. The fluffy marsupial's often dubbed "the world's happiest animal" thanks to its cheerful disposition and trust of humans. So we're not sure if this ...

A man charged by police after claims he tossed a quokka into the ocean off Rottnest Island has been given a spent conviction for animal cruelty. Bevan Denis Hames, 37, who has a degree in zoology, has ...