Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their ...

Although known to be capable swimmers, a potential one-kilometre ocean swim by an echidna has landed it in hospital.

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A newly analyzed fossil has revealed surprising insights into the evolutionary history of echidnas, suggesting that their ...

Echidnas are commonly held in zoos in Australia and around the world. Previous work from the same research group showed big differences in the gut microbiome between echidnas in zoos and in the wild.

they contain biological material that has shed light on the uniqueness of a native Australian icon and inspired new scientific thinking on human evolution: echidna poo. Since 2017, more than 500 of ...

Native bush rats are set to be reintroduced into urban reserves around Sydney in August as part of a pilot study. But once ...

As if Australia’s mammalian fauna was not already ... In particular, platypuses, who with echidnas are only very distantly related to all other mammals, turn out to glow a mix of blues, greens ...

ANSTO was part of a team led by researchers from Tokyo University of Science and Tohoku University, who have discovered ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem ...