What, you might ask, is a puggle? A puggle is a baby echidna, an animal with quills that looks a bit like a small, round porcupine with a long nose. The baby emerges from an egg incubated in its ...

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

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 ...

Although known to be capable swimmers, a potential one-kilometre ocean swim by an echidna has landed it in hospital.

Native to New Guinea and Australia, these animals are the size of a house cat ... Swapping penis sides allowed one echidna to “ejaculate 10 times without significant pause,” study authors ...

Along the way, the team deployed more than 80 trail cameras to record signs of the echidna, animals that are notoriously difficult to find since they are nocturnal and live in burrows. It wasn't ...

But now, one of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named for famed biologist and naturalist Sir David Attenborough, has been found – and caught on camera. The animal in question is considered ...

these are some of the most special animals on Earth.” This species is one of five living monotremes, a strange group of primitive mammals that includes the platypus and three other echidna ...

For more than 60 years, many biologists had begun to wonder if a strange, egg-laying mammal named after British naturalist David Attenborough would ever be seen again. Signs of the mysterious ...