The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

Lubitz said the dead echidna was whole when it was regurgitated ... in Australia and New Guinea — are egg-laying mammals, ...

Lubitz said the dead echidna was whole when it was regurgitated ... in Australia and New Guinea — are egg-laying mammals, have spines protruding from their bodies and use a beak-like snout ...