Wombats might look adorable, but their poop is downright bizarre it’s cube-shaped! Discover the weird science behind one of nature’s strangest digestive quirks and why it actually helps these ...

Wombats had long baffled scientists as the only animal in the world with cube-shaped poop, even though their intestines are the same shape as other mammals, including humans.

The wombat’s intestines work this way. As the waste moves through the colon and dries out, it begins to form a square, which results in cube-shaped wombat poop.

Wombats are the only animals in the world that produce cube-shaped scat. But how and why do they do it? Scientists now have a better idea.

A team of scientists claims to have unraveled one of the animal kingdom's more peculiar mysteries: why wombat poop is cube-shaped. The wombat, native to Australia, produces about 80 to 100 cubes ...

The cute and fluffy wombat is famous for its consistently cube-shaped poo. (ABC News) Testing their theory In the lab, the team recreated the drying of waste in the intestine.

The squat, four-legged wombat may be one of Australia’s most charismatic animals, but it is also the only known species in the world that is capable of producing cube-shaped poops. Now ...

Bare-nosed wombats (Vombatus ursinus) can excrete four to eight scat pieces at a time and can poop up to 100 cubes a day Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

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.