Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

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Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout. The short-beaked echidna is common across Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea and along with the ...

To stay cool in searing temperatures, the prickly echidna, an egg-laying mammal that lives Down Under, employs a somewhat unusual trick: It blows snot bubbles to keep its nose wet, a new study finds. ...

Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

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An analysis of the interior of a single bone suggests its owner was probably an aquatic or semi-aquatic animal. Since the bone has been proposed to come from an ancestor of echidnas, or at least a ...

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