Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hiker was hiking in Tasmania when, to her delight, a baby wombat approached. It didn’t just approach her. He started rubbing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We all love watching baby animals and they always seem to have endless amounts of energy to run and play. Take this baby wombat as ...

A SHED in a quiet street is the hub of a citizen-led wildlife rescue mission as the wombat fights for its survival against a cruel killer. Inside the shed, hundreds of burrow-flaps are being ...

A couple visiting a beach in Tasmania saw a wombat wading into water to forage, an “unusual” behavior that baffled experts, a video shows. Screengrabs from a Facebook video shared by the Wombat ...

FILE - Otto, a Tasmanian wombat, waddles around the Albuquerque BioPark Zoo's newest exhibit in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan) Visit our YouTube page ...

“It’s a bit warm for the wombats, mate,” an Aussie hiker lamented when we crossed paths at a coastal headland on Maria Island, a wild and mountainous speck in Australia’s southernmost state, Tasmania.

Australia’s iconic marsupial has been viewed as a food source, pest, mascot and, now, a conservation concern. Scientists are breaking down myths—using genetics, robots and citizen science—and finding ...