Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Sydney hosted the 2000 Summer Olympics, an unlikely hero emerged: an unofficial mascot known as Fatso the Fat-Arsed Wombat.

The bare-nosed or common wombat is a marsupial closely related to koalas. Wombats have a stocky build with short, stubby legs and coarse tan, grey, or brown fur. They are the second-largest marsupial ...

In the early 1980s, a small group of scientists and conservationists faced a dark realization. The northern hairy-nosed ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The common wombat (Vombatus ursinus) is, as ...