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 ...

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 ...

It is not because they have square anuses. That was my first thought, too. Wombats have roundish anuses, just like the rest of us mammals. They don’t mold their poop into cubes after it’s been ...

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 ...

Wombat crap in cubes—square-faced, sharp-edged ... Wombats are the only known animals that poop in cubes. On the fronts and backs, the feces run about one inch by one inch, and are around ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For many years, scientists have been fascinated by wombats' square poop. Wombats are marsupial animals that live in Australia, and yes, they literally poop out cubes, and lots of them. New ...

resulting in the cubic nature of the poop (Philip Ross, 2013). So no, wombats do not have a square butthole. You can read more about wombats and their strange feces (pictured below) at io9.