Imagine walking in the Australian bush and seeing neat cubes on a rock. They weren’t carved or placed there as a prank. They’re from a wombat. It sounds unbelievable, but it’s true. The wombat is the ...

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 ...

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 ...