The body of an echidna ranges from 14 to 30 inches in length ... All four species have 2-inch, beige-and-black spines that help camouflage them in the brush. On their belly side, both male and ...

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 ...

Gison Morib was lying in bed, sick from exhaustion after a month-long jungle expedition, when his phone buzzed, revealing a black-and-white photograph of a long-nosed, fuzzy animal. Morib ran ...

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 ...

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 ...

An incredibly unique albino echidna has been spotted in Australia ... Some other animals are just partially white due to a different condition called leucism, which impacts melanin production ...

Sydney (AFP) – Australia's burrowing echidna evolved from a water-dwelling ancestor in an "extremely rare" biological event, scientists said Tuesday in a new study of the peculiar egg-laying ...