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Wombat are burrowing marsupial native to Australia best-known for being cute and adorable. Like other marsupials, wombats give birth to tiny, undeveloped young that crawl into pouches on their mothers' bellies. A wombat baby remains in its mother's pouch for about five months before emerging. Wombats are nocturnal and emerge to feed at night on grasses, roots, and bark with their rodent-like incisors that never stop growing,

But there’s something more intriguing about these adorable marsupials: Wombats are the only animals in the world that produce cube-shaped poop. Cubes are very rare in nature, humans either mold cubes from soft materials, or cut them from harder objects and Wombats have a third way. A wombat takes more than ten times longer to pass the food through the guts, up to 2 weeks, in order to extract all the water and nutritional content possible. This travel time gives wombats much drier faeces. Researchers revealed that the varied elasticity of the intestines help to sculpt the wombat's poop into cubes.

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