Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, which was thought to be extinct, has stunned scientists after being filmed in a tropical forest in Indonesia for the first time. The egg-laying mammal, named after ...

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that's the word for a newborn echidna) ...

An expedition through an Indonesian mountain range led to researchers capturing rare video of an endangered species that hasn't been spotted in over 60 years. Researchers with Expedition Cyclops were ...

A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...

It's major. It's robust. It's huge. It is, in fact, as strong as a egg-laying, beak-rocking, water-loving mammal is adorable. There are platypus storybooks aplenty, and stuffed toys, and cartoon ...

The western long-beaked echidna, one of the world's five egg-laying species of mammal, became extinct in Australia thousands of years ago... or did it? Scientists have found evidence suggesting that ...

Alice Springs Desert Park is working to switch the baby animal from formula to an adult diet Meet Puggly! That’s this orphaned echidna’s name for now. Echidnas are egg-laying mammals native to ...

Jars of tiny platypus and echidna specimens, collected in the late 1800s by the scientist William Caldwell, have been discovered in the stores of Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology. Jars of tiny ...

Echidnas are one of the only egg-laying mammals on the planet. Unfortunately, a group of the spiny critters chose a farmhouse in the Australian outback to mate and the scraping of their porcupine-like ...