Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes, and they are unique for being the only mammals that lay eggs. The amphibious platypus has a bill and webbed feet ...

Someone said to take a picture, so I scrambled to get my phone,” he continued, adding: “I managed to only get one picture, but you can see the outline of the echidna in the water.” ...

Oxford University researchers on an expedition to Indonesia were stunned to have come across video evidence of an extremely rare species of echidna that had been considered critically ...

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This rediscovered mammal, known as Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna and named for Sir David, has “the quills of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole,” said James ...