On Friday, Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, introduced a rare short-beaked echidna puggle in a video shared on Facebook. The new addition is around seven months old and has yet to be named. Born in ...

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 ...

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 ...

SYDNEY: Australia’s burrowing echidna evolved from an aquatic ancestor in what scientists have described as an "extremely rare" evolutionary transition, according to a new study released Tuesday.

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 ...

A visitor to a national park in Australia stole an echidna, a protected native mammal, and kept it before officials rescued and released it. Google Street View April ...

A tiger shark has surprised Australian scientists on an ocean research trip by regurgitating a spiky land-loving echidna in front of them. Researchers from James Cook University said Thursday that ...

The puggle, the tenth born at the Sydney zoo, doesn't have a name yet as its gender has not been identified, the zoo said. At this stage it is just starting to look like a small echidna, also known as ...

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 ...

A visitor to a national park in Australia stole a spiny mammal and kept it in captivity for several months as its health deteriorated. Now, after a “lengthy” recovery, the legally protected animal is ...