A wombat has made its home in the main street of Robe, evidence of an influx of the animals in the South Australian coastal town. Their numbers appear to be increasing in Robe, as more land in the ...

They are the name of a popular British band, are native to Australia and are also vegetarians — they’re wombats! As the cuddly creatures and fans that love them celebrate National Wombat Day on ...

In the early 1980s, a small group of scientists and conservationists faced a dark realization. The northern hairy-nosed wombat, a burrowing marsupial that once ranged across much of eastern Australia, ...

Launched in 2015, WomSAT (Wombat Survey and Analysis Tool) is a citizen science project and website that allows "wombat warriors" to report sightings of wombats, their burrows, and even their ...

A northern hairy-nosed wombat joey spotted by motion camera at a Queensland refuge offers a hopeful sign for one of Australia’s rarest mammals. The moment highlights the importance of secure refuges, ...

Australia's unprecedented Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20 created ideal conditions for misinformation to spread, from the insidious to the absurd. It was within this context that a bizarre story ...

While the Diprotodon -- the extinct megafauna species that is distantly related to wombats but was the size of a small car -- is commonly (but incorrectly) thought of as Australia's 'giant wombat', ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American When an otherwise nocturnal wombat shows up ...