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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A tiger shark in northern Australia has given researchers the surprise of their lives - by throwing up a fully intact and famously land-dwelling echidna. The team from James Cook University (JCU ...

While most mammals give birth to live young ... and small aquatic animals. The short-beaked echidna, found across Australia ...

Enter the weird world of the echidna—a mammal in a category all its own Enter the weird world of the echidna—a mammal in a category all its own ...

The echidna is one of only two egg-laying mammals in Australia. The other is the egg-laying and venomous playtpus. Fun fact: relative to body size, the short-beaked echidna is the mammal with the ...

The platypus was ultimately placed into a new order called Monotremata, alongside the four living species of echidna. Monotremes are, notably, egg-laying mammals that produce milk for their young. The ...

Consider the western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii). An obscure, egg-laying mammal that is listed as critically endangered by the IUCN Red List, it had not been recorded by scientists ...

In a thrilling breakthrough, a long-lost mammal species has been rediscovered in Indonesia’s Cyclopean Mountains. The Zaglossus of Sir David, also known as Attenborough’s Long-Beaked Echidna ...