This rescued baby wombat getting a gentle massage is one of the most precious things I've ever seen. I love the wombat's pink ...

How can you tell if a wombat feels like mating? It might bite its partner on the bottom, say scientists behind new research. Australian researchers have studied sexual behaviours among wombats in ...

The team compared the wombat intestines to pig intestines by inserting a balloon into the animals' digestive tracts to see how it stretched to fit the balloon. In wombats, the faeces changed from ...

IKEDA, Osaka Prefecture—A marsupial from Australia kept at the Ikeda city-run Satsukiyama Zoo was listed in Guinness World Records as the oldest wombat ever in captivity. Wain celebrated his ...

Animals whose names start with the letter W are quite rare, so we invite you to discover which ones they are and the peculiarities that make their species stand out.

For the first time, researchers have been given an insight into wombat behaviour in burrows, thanks to high-tech activity tracking collars. This information is critical to understanding that ...

Usually the pair would have been cared for at Goongerah Wombat Orphanage, but with the COVID-19 lockdown in place Emily Small had to provide them with their regular feeds at her apartment instead.

Armed with a makeshift pole and a spray can filled with medication, conservationist Melina Budden quietly tails Hope, a mange-infected wombat, through the Australian bush. Mange is a skin disease ...