Scientists say they have uncovered how and why wombats produce cube-shaped poo - the only known species to do so. The Australian marsupial can pass up to 100 deposits of poop a night and they use ...

Wombats are unique in the animal kingdom because they produce about 80-100 cubes of poo each night. The poo is cubic, not because the wombat has a square-shaped anus, but because the first part of ...

Wombats are furry mammals from Australia – can you believe they poop cubes? Researchers found that their cube-shaped poop is shaped by their intestines, which slowly contract and mould the ...

He is well known in the wombat world for being part of the Ig Nobel winning team which found out why its poop is cube-shaped (because of muscle contractions in their intestines and not due to a ...

And is wombat poo really cube-shaped? The Secret Life of Pets' Kevin Hart and Eric Stonestreet try to guess the answers to these pressing questions, and more.

No facts list would be complete without at least one mention of poop – enter the wombat. The wombat is a slightly chunky marsupial native to Australia, and while it is known for being the world ...

Believe it or not, bare-nosed wombats are the only known animal in the world to produce cube-shaped poo. Not only that, but they may even poop up to 100 cubes each day. The phenomenon confused ...