Wombats are a burrowing animal native to Australia perhaps best-known for being, well, pudgy—and quite cute. Recently, you might have seen that these adorable marsupials use their hard butts to defend ...

Of all the poops in the world, only wombats’ are shaped like cubes. The varied elasticity of the wombat’s intestines helps the marsupials to sculpt their scat into cubelike nuggets, instead of the ...