Irwin paid tribute to the "family member" of nearly 40 years in a heartfelt post on Instagram Wednesday Bindi Irwin and her family are mourning the loss of a small animal friend. The zookeeper, 24, ...

Most of the time, an echidna’s penis is tucked safely inside its body, keeping itself clean and leaving unsuspecting passersby to assume it looks like any other garden-variety mammalian male member.

A baby echidna has been rescued from floodwaters in Menindee Named Kevin, the young animal is between three and four months old The puggle has been transferred to Dubbo for further care The puggle, ...

Alice Springs Desert Park is working to switch the baby animal from formula to an adult diet Meet Puggly! That’s this orphaned echidna’s name for now. Echidnas are egg-laying mammals native to ...

For more than 60 years, researchers have been unable to physically see a critically endangered animal known as one of the world's most unusual mammals. But now, one of Attenborough's long-beaked ...

Oxford University researchers on an expedition to Indonesia were stunned to have come across video evidence of an extremely rare species of echidna that had been considered critically endangered on ...

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 creature ...

You know those sports injuries where an athlete’s leg snaps completely through and hangs at an awful angle? Or when Madonna does a weird photo-shoot in her bedroom? It’s up there with those. But as ...

Species: Tachyglossus aculeatus (Short-Beaked Echidna), Zaglossus attenboroughi (Sir David’s Long-beaked Echidna), Zaglossus bartoni (Eastern long-beaked echidna), Zaglossus bruijnii (Western ...

Before joining Discover Magazine, Paul Smaglik spent over 20 years as a science journalist, specializing in U.S. life science policy and global scientific career issues. He began his career in ...

Bindi Irwin and her family are mourning the loss of a small animal friend. The zookeeper, 24, paid tribute to the Australia Zoo's echidna – a relative of the platypus that is also called a spiny ...