Koalas Tend to be known as bears, but this is a misnomer. While their scientific genus, Phascolarctos, interprets as "pouched bear", koalas are certainly not customers in the bear, or Ursidae relatives.13 Koalas are actually far more closely connected to kangaroos, bandicoots and possums than legitimate bears. Koalas are marsupial waiting for link from Article Directories (10)