Echidnas don't have very good vision, but they have a strong sense of smell and hearing. When they feel threatened, echidnas will roll into a ball so that only their spiky back is exposed. Echidnas ...

University of Adelaide researchers discovered monotremes use a completely different sex determination system than other ...

The echidna — fittingly known as the spiny anteater — lives entirely on land, is covered in pointy quills and has rear feet that face backward, kicking up dirt as the animal burrows into the ...

The echidna — fittingly known as the spiny anteater — lives entirely on land, is covered in pointy quills and has rear feet that face backward, kicking up dirt as the animal burrows into the ...

The new clip video was shared on social media last month and appears to show Samantha Strable, known online as Sam Jones,stroking an echidna’s spiny back and touching its paw before placing it ...

A rare and boisterous encounter between a young wombat and a spiny echidna has been caught on camera, to the delight of Australian conservationists.

The existence of the spiny, snouted Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna had not been definitively recorded since 1961 when the first scientific specimen was collected, and scientists weren’t ...

A tiger shark has surprised Australian scientists on an ocean research trip by regurgitating a spiky land-loving echidna in front of them. Researchers from James Cook University said Thursday that ...