Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

Discover the surprising mating habits of short-beaked echidnas and how they engage even with hibernating females. If the idea of a cold, motionless sexual partner isn't one of your turn-ons, then ...

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A nearly gapless genome sequence of the echidna, an egg-laying mammal with multiple sex chromosomes, helps researchers to track genomic reorganization events that gave rise to a highly unusual sex ...

Physiological, molecular and fossil evidence suggests that ancestors of both platypuses and echidnas were venomous. Male platypuses and echidnas both secrete from spurs in their hind quarters.

Northwest Houston’s exotic zoo is home to several new resident’s — an Asian water buffalo, kookaburra, a yellow-headed vulture and a pair of rare short-beaked echidnas. “We have a few new animals ...

The species was named for Sir David Attenborough in 1998. Oxford University researchers on an expedition to Indonesia were stunned to have come across video evidence of an extremely rare species of ...