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

Similar to hedgehogs, echidnas are spiny, nocturnal creatures that roll into a ball when they sense danger. Z. attenboroughi is the smallest known species of long-beaked echidna, weighing between ...

Raffie the white echidna was spotted in Bathurst ... "When they are faced with a predator, they will roll up into a ball or with their spikes sticking out, or will shuffle and dig themselves ...

They were tagging marine life off the coast of Orpheus Island, north Queensland at the time, but this shark did something strange: it puked up an echidna, a quill-covered little creature that ...

He said it is “rare” that tiger sharks throw up their food, although they can when stressed. “In this case, I think the echidna must have just felt a bit funny in its throat.” The shark ...

But one Aussie mum was faced with an unusual dilemma — how to remove an echidna. Emily Buchanan had ... t simply wander further inside Emily set up a corridor so he would exit the home while ...

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 ...

Research from the University of Adelaide shows microbial communities in echidna pseudo-pouches undergo ... "Instead of picking up vaginal microbiota during delivery like other mammals, echidnas ...

KELLY: Let's roll, wide awake ... Like, scientists on this expedition set up 80 different cameras for a month in an area where they've seen clues of the echidna. Here's the biologist who led ...