Scientists explain how wombats drop cubed poop

Sunday, November 18, 2018 - 18:50 in Biology & Nature

Wombats, the chubby and beloved, short-legged marsupials native to Australia, are central to a biological mystery in the animal kingdom: How do they produce cube-shaped poop? Patricia Yang, a postdoctoral fellow in mechanical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, set out to investigate.

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