Echidna genome study unravels the events leading to multiple sex chromosomes
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of ...
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Echidna Genome Sheds Light on Complex Sex Chromosome Evolution
A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to ...
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Unraveling the events leading to multiple sex chromosomes using an echidna genome sequence
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)  is one of Australia’s most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of ...
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First-ever images prove 'lost echidna' not extinct
Aside from the duck-billed platypus, the echidna is the only mammal that lays eggs. Of the four echidna species three have long beaks, with the Attenborough echidna, and the western echidna ...
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Surprise footage reveals the voice of one of nature’s weirdest mammals
The reason Nick and I are so sad to see the back of one is because we’re trying to film echidna mating behaviour for Mammals and it is proving rather difficult. Part of the challenge is that the ...
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Researchers rediscovered a spiky, beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough that hasn't been seen for 60 years and was thought to be extinct
What is the echidna? Echidnas are part of a group of animals called monotremes, which is the only group of mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Echidnas are one of only ...
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Ten reasons to love echidnas
Echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are solitary mammals with many peculiar quirks. Out of the four species that exist today, three are the rare long-beaked echidnas, only found in New Guinea. The ...