More than a hundred years after it was found in Foul Air Cave in Victoria, the fossil is granting us new insights into deep time.
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The monotreme sex gene may have been found after decades of searching – and it’s not what anyone expected.
Let’s cast the holly, snowmen and reindeer aside to decorate our homes with Aussie Christmas crafts instead. How about Christmas beetle baubles, paper parrots and ornamental echidnas?
Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting
Floods allow aquatic animals to venture into places you wouldn’t expect, from crocs in swimming pools to bull sharks in a golf course.
Excavator, farmer, matchmaker: echidnas provide a host of benefits to nature. So let’s harness the potential.
As the holiday season begins after months of reduced travel, wildlife hospitals are braced for a new wave of admissions.
Echidnas can survive quite low levels of oxygen.
Searching for animals thought to be extinct – or fictional – is difficult, painstaking and often disappointing. But new technology like drones offer hope of a boom in biological discovery.
Physiological, molecular and fossil evidence suggests that ancestors of both platypuses and echidnas were venomous. Male…
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