Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The northern hairy-nosed wombat rebounded from just 35 individuals in the 1980s to over 400 today, thanks to intensive ...

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, ...

Julie is an Associate Editor at Australian Mammalogy, a member of the Australian Mammal Society, and a Director on the Board of The Wombat Foundation. Wombat noses and whiskers don’t just make them ...