Some exciting, hard-hitting poop news has just come out of Australia: Scientists at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) have figured out how, exactly, wombats make their legendary cube-shaped feces. The ...

Scientists have finally worked out why wombats produce cube-shaped faeces. They found that the last section of the chubby marsupials' intestine does not stretch evenly which distorts their faeces into ...

Blocked out: a cube-shaped wombat dropping. (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 3.0/Bjørn Christian Tørrissen) Wombats are the only animals known to produce cubic droppings, and now a team of scientists claims to ...

As the children’s book Everyone Poos has taught us, creatures of all shapes and sizes create an array of poops, and they are all natural and okay. Well, maybe except for the wombat’s poop; something ...

Wombats weigh up to 35 kilograms and live in grassy plains and forests in Australia. They create nearly 100 poo cubes every day! But how?! There were suggestions that wombats had a square-shaped anus ...