Koalas Are sometimes known as bears, but that is a misnomer. Although their scientific genus, Phascolarctos, translates as "pouched bear", koalas are not users from the bear, or Ursidae family.13 Koalas are actually a lot more carefully relevant to kangaroos, bandicoots and possums than genuine bears. Koalas are marsupial mammals, waiting for link from Article Directories (9)