A tourist proudly holding a wombat at an Australian zoo has ignited a debate about whether the practice should be banned. While the video was a positive review of the experience at Taralga Wildlife ...

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On the vast expanse of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, two very different creatures live side by side—but not always peacefully. One is the southern hairy-nosed wombat, a slow-moving nocturnal ...

It’s a good day Down Under. Australian conservationists in Queensland are celebrating after discovering a new addition to the country’s population of critically endangered northern hairy-nosed wombats ...

It was a tale that seemed too good to be true, and in fact, it was: During the devastating 2019-20 Black Summer wildfires in southeastern Australia, false reports circulated that wombats had protected ...