An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing ... Just a few seconds of black and white footage shows the slightly ungainly creature ambling through the undergrowth, apparently unaware ...

Photo from the Bathurst Regional Council Wandering around in southern Australia, a spiky white creature ... have a brown and black coloring. A staff member spotted the rare echidna, named Raffie ...

She continued: 'And this completely off the charts adorable young albino echidna.' The native animal is found all over the Australian mainland, with the Tasmanian variation usually coloured black.

Animals cover themselves in all kinds of unsavory fluids to keep cool. Humans sweat, kangaroos spit and some birds will urinate on themselves to survive hot days. It turns out that echidnas do ...

An analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil has found that the creature it belonged to, similar to a monotreme like the echidna and platypus, was water-dwelling. The study supports the theory ...

With the help of a landing net they brought the echidna onboard. "She went into defensive mode, curled up into a ball. There was a big black rubbish bin on the boat so we put him in there to keep ...