Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some exciting, hard-hitting poop news has just come out of Australia: Scientists at the University of Tasmania (UTAS) have figured ...

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 ...

Archaeologists discovered an unusually flat-topped skull at a pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican site.

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 ...

Scientists have been puzzling for decades over how the Australian bare-nosed wombat poops out neat little cubes of feces instead of tapered cylinders like pretty much every other animal. According to ...

OK, first things first. Wombats do cubed-shaped poos. Now you know. It's been thought in the past that this distinctive shape was formed at the—ahem—point of exit. But thanks to some new research by ...

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 ...

Forget the average computer mouse. Ignore all those ergonomically-designed gadgets — the ones that are molded to suit the shape of your hand for the sake of comfort — and instead focus on little brick ...

China's Yutu-2 rover, on the far side of the moon, spotted a distant cube-shaped object last month. China's space agency dubbed the object "mysterious hut." Others called it "moon cube." The rover got ...