Echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are solitary mammals with many peculiar quirks. Out of the four species that exist today, three are the rare long-beaked echidnas, only found in New Guinea. The ...

Spiky, furry and with a beak, echidnas have been called "living fossils". They are thought to have emerged about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. What is biodiversity and ...

She has jokingly been called a "perve in the bush" but it is thanks to the 35 years that Peggy Rismiller has spent watching the sex life of echidnas that we know as much as we do about the ...

Echidnas blow snot bubbles and do belly flops to keep themselves cool in the Australian heat, new research has found. The native animals are believed to be less tolerant to hot weather than other ...