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 ...

Nov. 14, 2005 — -- The "puggle," a cross between a beagle and a pug, has become so trendy, David Barber boasts, that a list of proud new owners of the designer dog sounds like an Oscar night ...

Just as Capt. James T. Kirk couldn’t open an overhead compartment on his beloved starship without being showered with an avalanche of round, furry Tribbles, so, too, does it seem that rescue groups ...

They're known as the doggy duo at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, but it's okay to call Puggle and Huckleberry a dynamic duo, because they're certainly heroes to the kids they work with. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – Brookfield Zoo is celebrating its first hatching of a new baby puggle. The unnamed and unsexed puggle – a baby short-beaked echidna – hatched between March 2 and 5, according to the ...

Few creatures are as puzzling as the platypus. Multiple ancient and enduring First Nations stories touch on its appearance as an amalgam of creatures like a duck and a rakali. Its chimera-like ...

A tiny, short-beaked orphaned echidna puggle who was found abandoned in a paddock has found a new home at a local zoo, with a kind-hearted veterinary nurse becoming the monotreme's new mum. The cute ...

Sally and Nick play "When I Grow Up" with Puggle, and learn about tadpoles and toads. Sally and Nick play "When I Grow Up" with Puggle the Platypus. They meet Gabby the King Toad to learn about ...

Bertha weighed 60 pounds when Meredith Wille, a certified canine rehabilitation practitioner and fitness trainer, started fostering the puggle Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Sydney’s Taronga Zoo unveiled a rare short-beaked echidna puggle on Friday, born to mum Gunyi at its breeding facility around seven months ago. The puggle, the tenth born at the Sydney zoo, doesn’t ...