Two orphaned echidna puggles were receiving care at a wildlife hospital in Healesville, Victoria, after being accidentally ...

Two baby echidnas have found themselves in expert care after being accidentally unearthed during building works in rural ...

Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Echidnas may not seem the most active of animals. Waddling around, they spend much of their time dozing and hiding. But in research ...

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Stewart Nichol: If you talk to anyone about echidnas they will say oh this thing the echidna trains and I don't know if you've heard some of this story, these lines of echidnas pursuing a female for ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Echidnas ...

In the Australian outback, temperatures can soar to 113°F (45°C), meaning animals must do everything they can to stay cool. Koala bears hug branches of eucalyptus trees, wombats hide in the cool ...

Echidnas blow snot bubbles and do belly flops to keep themselves cool in the Australian heat, new research has found. The native animals are believed to be less tolerant to hot weather than other ...

For the Australian animal called the echidna, a trial by fire would be no sweat. New research shows that echidnas, cat-sized critters related to the platypus, excel at surviving fires. Their strategy ...

Two baby echidnas are getting round-the-clock care after their burrows were accidentally dug up in rural Victoria, Australia.