Most people have a preferred way of communication—phone, text, email—but bare-nosed wombats have an unusual way of relaying ...

Wombats have a reputation for being muddle-headed, plodding and dozy. But this doziness actually masks a consummate skill for energy conservation — they have exceptionally slow metabolisms and very ...

South Australia Police are investigating a video that appears to show an off-duty officer badly injuring or killing a wombat by throwing rocks at it. The video was posted on the Wombat Awareness ...

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 ...

Wombats are mostly solitary creatures but they share a communal latrine. Could the animals be leaving each other messages ...

These stories went quickly viral – probably reflecting the appetite for good news after the horrors of the bushfire crisis. However, the accounts are not entirely accurate. Wombats do not heroically ...

The next stop took the researchers to wombat latrines so they could gather up some poop cubes and figure out their chemical ...

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The world’s oldest wombat will be celebrating his 35th birthday this month. Everyone get ready to sing “Happy Birthday” to Wain the wombat, and make sure you buy him some gifts that are age ...