STORY: In a forest in southeastern Australia, Melina Budden is trailing a wombat named Hope. :: Megalong Valley, Australia The tiny marsupial is covered with mange, a parasitic skin disease. Armed ...

In the early 1980s, a small group of scientists and conservationists faced a dark realization. The northern hairy-nosed wombat, a burrowing marsupial that once ranged across much of eastern Australia, ...

Trail cameras at a protected forest in Australia photographed three rare mammals with bulging pouches —the site’s first wild-born babies. Photo from the Queensland’s Government In a protected forest ...

During Australia’s 2019-2020 Black Summer bushfires, wombats made headlines as much as the firefighters. In fact, multiple wombats were observed supposedly herding other animals into their own burrows ...