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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

If you are unlucky enough to injure an echidna or find one injured then getting it to your local wildlife rescue organisation or the nearest vet will give the animal its best chance of survival.