The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

Lubitz said the dead echidna was whole when it was regurgitated ... It is unclear how many of these animals are in the wild. ...

The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent ...

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Koala hospital’s desperate plea to save distressed animals. But Southern Koala and Echidna Rescue operations manager Mish Simpson said this is not normal koala behaviour. “The ...