The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of ...

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)  is one of Australia’s most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of ...

The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

Of the four echidna species three have long beaks ... You're being scratched and cut. There are venomous animals around you, deadly snakes like the death adder," Dr Kempton explains.

A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to ...

They believe it is the first time a tiger shark has been recorded eating one of the spiky animals, which can grow ... but you can see the outline of the echidna in the water.” ...

The animal later became recognised as Ornithorhynchus anatinus ... The platypus was ultimately placed into a new order called Monotremata, alongside the four living species of echidna. Monotremes are, ...