Casper is about 42 years old and a native of Australia. The adult echidna has claws on its front and back feet for climbing and digging, an elongated snout, no teeth and a specialized tongue for ...

SYDNEY: Australia’s burrowing echidna evolved from an aquatic ancestor in what scientists have described as an "extremely rare" evolutionary transition, according to a new study released Tuesday.

One of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s newest residents is still learning to move about on wobbly legs and peering at our strange world through tiny eyes. The Safari Park announced this week the ...

It's major. It's robust. It's huge. It is, in fact, as strong as a egg-laying, beak-rocking, water-loving mammal is adorable. There are platypus storybooks aplenty, and stuffed toys, and cartoon ...

San Diego Zoo Global announced Monday it has hatched its first echidna — or spiny anteater — at its Safari Park in North County. The baby — from an Oceanic species with small eyes and a distinctive ...

When a spiny, snouted egg-laying mammal moseyed into the frame of a camera nestled in a remote Indonesian rainforest, researchers found out an ancient echidna species thought to be extinct is very ...

A tiger shark has surprised Australian scientists on an ocean research trip by regurgitating a spiky land-loving echidna in front of them. Researchers from James Cook University said Thursday that ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — One of the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s newest residents is still learning to move about on wobbly legs and peering at the world through tiny eyes. The Safari Park announced this week the ...

Readers of our Evotourism story about Kangaroo Island in Australia may have been puzzled by the mention of an animal called the echidna. What is it? In Greek mythology, Echidna was half snake and half ...