A catalyst for conservation The long-beaked echidna is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, according to the news release. Part of the reason may be because ...

The echidna is seen waddling around the frame ... Before the arrival of Europeans, the species was found from northern ...

In addition to finding Attenborough's "lost echidna" the expedition discovered new species of insects and frogs, and observed healthy populations of tree kangaroo and birds of paradise.

This photo is an example of the echidna speciesTachyglossus aculeatus that researchers sequenced, providing a nearly gapless genome sequence. This genome was used to investigate the evolution of ...

Only five of these rare mammals still cling to existence: one platypus and four echidna species, shared between Australia and Papua New Guinea. But due to their reptilian-like egg-laying feature ...

While the echidna species has 400 to 2,000 electroreceptor skin cells, the platypus has 40,000 across the top and bottom of its bill. Scientists believe that at some point during platypus ...

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 ...

Out of the four species that exist today, three are the rare long-beaked echidnas, only found in New Guinea. The fourth is the short-beaked echidna, widespread in Australia yet still difficult to spot ...

Australia is home to some of the most rare animals in the world, with nearly 80% of plants, mammals, reptiles, and frogs ...