An extremely rare white echidna has been spotted roaming the streets of an Australian city. The snow-colored spine ball was seen wandering around Bathurst, which is about 120 miles northwest of Sydney ...

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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) ...

The species was named for Sir David Attenborough in 1998. Oxford University researchers on an expedition to Indonesia were stunned to have come across video evidence of an extremely rare species of ...

Rediscovered after 60 years, the funky critter is named for Sir David Attenborough and is one of only five species of monotreme remaining on Earth. By Laura Baisas Published Nov 14, 2023 9:09 AM EST ...

One of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s newest residents is still learning to move about on wobbly legs and peering at our strange world through tiny eyes. The Safari Park announced this week the ...

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 long-beaked echidna had not been documented since the 1960s. Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct. Suspected footage of Zaglossus attenboroughi -- the long-beaked ...

When a spiny, snouted egg-laying mammal moseyed into the frame of a camera nestled in a remote Indonesian rainforest, researchers found out an ancient echidna species thought to be extinct is very ...

SAN DIEGO — One of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s newest residents is still learning to move about on wobbly legs and peering at the world through tiny eyes. The Safari Park announced this week the ...