Neighbours swap lawn mowers for leaf litter, and something unexpected happens. A quiet garden becomes a stage for rare ...

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 ...

A trail camera on Clarke Island recorded an echidna for the first time in decades. Photos show the egg-laying mammal once feared locally extinct. Photo from Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre via ...

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.

Only two kinds of egg-laying mammals are left on the planet today—the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, or spiny anteater. These odd “monotremes” once dominated Australia, until their ...

Scientists have confirmed the rediscovery of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, a species previously thought to be extinct for over 60 years. This ancient, egg-laying mammal was found deep within the ...