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Why wombat poop is shaped like a cube – Boing Boing
Today I learned that a) the poop of wombats is shaped like a cube, and b) scientists have figured out how they poop like that. These are both excellent things!…
Maybe you were already aware of the geometry of wombat excrement? Goddamn hipsters. Anyway, it was a surprise to me. And apparently the precise mechanism by which it assumes that shape has been a mystery to wombat scientists for a long time too. To get to the bottom of the mystery, scientists dissected a wombat that had died after being hit by a car. They examined the intestines and found that they contain two grooves where the guts are more elastic, which the team first reported in 2018.
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