For more than 60 years, many biologists had begun to wonder if a strange, egg-laying mammal named after British naturalist David Attenborough would ever be seen again. Signs of the mysterious creature ...

Scientists captured the first images of an elusive echidna named after David Attenborough. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was last recorded in 1961. Researchers dispatched 80 camera traps that ...

Australia's echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout. The short-beaked echidna is common across Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the ...

The continent of Australia is home to a wide variety of wonderfully weird mammals—kangaroos, wombats, and koalas among others. But the re-discovery of a specimen over a hundred years old raises new ...

Taronga Zoo, in Sydney, Australia, is celebrating its first successful Short-beaked Echidna births in nearly 30 years, with keepers monitoring the progress of three healthy echidna puggles. The ...

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent member ...

It’d be hard to think of a mammal that’s weirder than the long-beaked, egg-laying echidna. Or harder to find. Scientists long thought the animal, which has a spine-covered body, a four-headed penis, ...

San Diego Zoo Global announced Monday it has hatched its first echidna — or spiny anteater — at its Safari Park in North County. The baby — from an Oceanic species with small eyes and a distinctive ...

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