Most people would not expect digging near a burrow to carry serious legal consequences. In Australia, though, a few recent incidents involving wombats changed that perception quickly. What seemed ...

If you’ve ever tried to keep something out with a fence, you know one determined animal can often thwart your best efforts. In parts of Australia, that animal is the wombat. Stocky, stubborn, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern hairy-nosed wombat rebounded from just 35 individuals in the 1980s to over 400 today, thanks to intensive ...

A resident's startling find along the side of their regional home has prompted a warning to all Australians about the dangers ...

A small Aussie community is living in fear that the incredible underground phenomenon they’ve documented in the bush could be ...

Forestry Corporation of NSW (FCNSW) has told conservationists its logging plans for Glenbog State Forest will be good for ...

From cube-shaped scat to climate resilience, the wombat illustrates how one species’ quirks can reveal universal truths about ecosystems and adaptation. International Wombat Day may seem like a quirky ...

A rare sighting of the Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat caught by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. YouTube/Australian Wildlife Conservancy YouTube/Australian Wildlife Conservancy Production of this ...

Julie is an Associate Editor at Australian Mammalogy, a member of the Australian Mammal Society, and a Director on the Board of The Wombat Foundation. Wombat noses and whiskers don’t just make them ...