Scientists have finally worked out why wombats produce cube-shaped faeces. They found that the last section of the chubby marsupials' intestine does not stretch evenly which distorts their faeces into ...
Blocked out: a cube-shaped wombat dropping. (Courtesy: CC BY-SA 3.0/Bjørn Christian Tørrissen) Wombats are the only animals known to produce cubic droppings, and now a team of scientists claims to ...
It's been part of the Sunday roast in family homes for nearly a century. But the traditional Oxo cube is about to crumble away forever. In its place, the makers are producing an X-shaped block of ...
Oxo cubes could disappear from Britain's kitchens after 100 years - replaced with an X-shaped block of cooking stock. Makers Premier Foods have spent £2million reshaping Oxos, two million of which are ...
Wombats weigh up to 35 kilograms and live in grassy plains and forests in Australia. They create nearly 100 poo cubes every day! But how?! There were suggestions that wombats had a square-shaped anus ...