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 ...

The bare-nosed wombat is famous for many things, from its adorable features to its taxonomical membership within the marsupials. Yet one lesser-known, bizarre detail about wombats is that they poop ...

Wombats might be the only animals with cube-shaped scats, but there are plenty of other strange bowel movements being performed by Australian animals.

For many years, scientists have been fascinated by wombats' square poop. Wombats are marsupial animals that live in Australia, and yes, they literally poop out cubes, and lots of them. New research ...

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 ...

“In Japan, the foot can split wood,” began an unforgettable advertisement from my childhood. “But it can’t split a watermelon!” At this point in the commercial for Ginsu knives, a guy kicked a ...