A wombat has earned the nickname Ian Thorpe after swimming for nearly 40 minutes before being rescued from a Canberra pond after a thunderstorm. The wombat was rescued from Yerrabi Pond in Canberra's ...

In short: Footage of a wombat foraging for food in the ocean has surprised wombat experts, who say the behaviour is highly unusual. Tourists Chaz and Bee Taylor captured the footage of the wombat on ...

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