In January 2021, scientists discovered that the exceptionally rectangular droppings of wombats are the result of an uniquely evolved gastrointestinal system and not a cube-shaped anus as was ...

But after confirming that it is, indeed, a fact, she began trying to figure out why, and how, wombats poop in cubes ... “At first I thought they maybe have square anus, or maybe [the cube ...

Scientists suspect that the wombat evolved this unique trait to mark its territory on rocks and logs with poop that won’t easily roll off Ron Knight via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Burrowed beneath ...

Past wombat poop thinkers have speculated that perhaps the three extant species of wombat have a square anus, which forms the dry feces into dense little cubes on their way into the world ...

I Googled it and saw a lot about cube-shaped wombat poop, but I was skeptical ... droppings as effectively as you could if it were square blocks. The new research is not just an academic scat ...

Is the poo shaped like a square so wombats can more precisely mark their territory without it rolling away? Or are the blocky poo formations used to build habitats? Another popular theory for ...

The wombat has long been known for doing square poop, but it was not clear why and how to do it. This time, Yang et al. Dissected the carcass of a wombat and investigated the muscles and tissues ...

Bare-nosed wombats have what can only be described ... and those lagging points become the remaining pair of corners of the square, he said. “Poop is hard to move because it’s so dense and ...

And there’s a good reason the wombat’s poop is square. Animal Planet notes that the wombat likes to pop a squat on top of logs and rocks so that his poop is more visible to passersby.

A bold team of scientists has delved into the mystery of cube-shaped wombat poop, uncovering the physiological processes involved in this unique digestive trick. Wombats are kind of obsessed with ...

Credit: AP/Martin Meissner In 2021, scientists at Cornell University and other institutions published results of their study on why wombats are the only animal known to poop out cube-shaped scat.