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Ask LH: Why Is Wombat Poop Square-Shaped? – Lifehacker Australia
Ever wondered why wombat poop is square-shaped? Neither have I. Here’s the scientific answer to that curious question anyway.

Today in things I didn’t know I needed to know, scientists have been able to explain why wombat poop is shaped like a square.
It’s a strange quirk of the natural world that our little nugget-shaped marsupials take cube-shaped dumps and until now, we haven’t really understood why.
But as Mashable has reported, researchers from Georgia Tech and the University of Tasmania have revealed in a recently-published journal precisely how wombat poop gets to be so damn neat and angular.
Reportedly, the poop…
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