She has jokingly been called a "perve in the bush" but it is thanks to the 35 years that Peggy Rismiller has spent watching the sex life of echidnas that we know as much as we do about the ...

"The DNA can give us a finer grain picture of what echidnas have eaten," Professor Grutzner said. "I think the turtle egg is such an example, if you look at an echidna scat you wouldn't see they ...

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 ...

Echidnas are silent, hot water bottle sized mammals that don’t seem to have gotten the memo about doing all the things mammals are supposed to. They lay eggs like a reptile. They sense ...