The bare-nosed or common wombat is a marsupial closely related to koalas. Wombats have a stocky build with short, stubby legs and coarse tan, grey, or brown fur. They are the second-largest marsupial ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting the second-largest marsupial in Australia: the wombat.

Wombats might look adorable, but their poop is downright bizarre it’s cube-shaped! Discover the weird science behind one of nature’s strangest digestive quirks and why it actually helps these ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

A team of scientists claims to have unraveled one of the animal kingdom's more peculiar mysteries: why wombat poop is cube-shaped. The wombat, native to Australia, produces about 80 to 100 cubes of ...

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Do wombats–the boxy Australian marsupials already famous for their cube-shaped poop–use their butts to kill? A viral video with a sinister soundtrack claiming wombats kill with their backsides has ...

When Kate McMahon was finishing her science degree she found herself with the odd task of moving wombat poo around, to see how the animals would react. “I’d catch up with my friends and they’d ask, ...

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in the news after an American influencer filmed herself snatching a young joey from its mother, setting ...