A burrowing marsupial native to Australia, wombats are known for their strong legs, sharp claws and stout bodies. And now, ...

Jackie French was used to the quirks of wild animal behaviour – and then she met a carrot-mad wombat with an appetite for destruction. A bestseller was born ...

During Australia’s 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires, wombats made headlines as much as the firefighters. In fact, multiple wombats were observed supposedly herding other animals into their own burrows ...

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Wain the wombat has lived at Satsukiyama Zoo in Japan since 1990 Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She joined the brand in 2021 as a digital news writer, covering stories spanning ...

Wain the wombat is confirmed as the oldest living wombat in captivity ever at the age of 32 – equivalent to over 100 human years. According to Guinness World Records, Wain was rescued from his ...

Sam Jones shared the now-deleted video on Instagram. An American hunting influencer is sparking backlash after posting a social media video of herself taking a wild baby wombat from its mother. In a ...

A video of an American hunter picking up a baby wombat in Australia and carrying it away from its mother is sparking backlash on social media. Earlier this week, a video showing Sam Jones, an "outdoor ...

Wombats are the only animal in the world known to produce cubic poo. Until a few years ago it was assumed the feces was moulded into a square shape on its way out of the animal, but some robust ...