She turned 40 years old! As part of her celebrations, Snoopy the echidna got to play in a super cool echidna-sized ball pit ...

She has been living out her days in the simulated bushland haven and also enjoying an enrichment ball pit. The post Echidna ...

Posting to social media on Wednesday, senior operations officer Bailey shared his experience of the rescue. “Not a snake this time,” Bailey said. “Most people think that wildlife management on the ...

If you’ve always thought echidnas and platypuses were distant cousins who went their separate ways on land and water, think again. A single fossilized arm bone, found in a remote corner of ...

In November 2023, Mongabay reported on an expedition in which researchers partnered with Indigenous communities and government agencies in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains to capture camera-trap images ...

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that's the word for a newborn echidna) ...

Echidnas are monotremes, which are the only mammals that lay eggs. The early developmental stage at which they hatch from their egg means that the puggles lack a functioning immune system. “We know ...

Microbial communities in echidna pseudo-pouches undergo dramatic changes while the animal is lactating, says the University of Adelaide's Isabella Rose Wilson. Research from the University of Adelaide ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The ...

As the world's only surviving egg-laying mammals, Australasia's platypus and four echidna species are among the most extraordinary animals on Earth. They are also very different from each other. The ...