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Soft matter and liquids

Soft matter and liquids

Biophysicists strain to reveal why wombats have cube-shaped poo

28 Nov 2018
Wombat poo
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 t

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