Sometimes, after her young are raised, a mother wombat will depart her family burrow to join another, leaving the underground estate to her young, who may still be too small to dig their own ...

Wombats are furry, nocturnal marsupials found only in Australia. Baby wombats have recently been in the news after an American influencer filmed herself snatching a young joey from its mother ...

Still, wombat butts are one of nature’s wonders, if only because they poop in cubes and control their marsupial pouch with their sphincter muscle. Read More Wild Facts About Animals: Related Tags ...

If a predator followed them into their den, they could move their hard butts in a way that probably would make it very uncomfortable for the predators, who may then back out.

Seeing a wombat in regional Australia is not a rare experience, but when ecologists captured this particular one emerging from a den and casually wandering past a motion-sensor camera in the ...

American tourist causes international outrage after posting wombat video. A social media influencer named Sam Jones recently went viral for picking up a baby wombat and taking it away from its ...

An American social media influencer is defending herself after posting a video showing her separating a baby wombat from its mother while in Australia. Sam Jones posted two statements to Instagram ...

“I didn't really believe it,” Yang says. But after confirming that it is, indeed, a fact, she began trying to figure out why, and how, wombats poop in cubes.

An American tourist who caused uproar after picking up and running off with a baby wombat in Australia has said she is “truly sorry” for the incident, saying she was acting out of concern for ...

An American tourist who caused uproar after picking up and running off with a baby wombat in Australia has said she is “truly sorry” for the incident, saying she was acting out of concern for ...