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.

Scientists captured the first images of an elusive echidna named after David Attenborough. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was last recorded in 1961. Researchers dispatched 80 camera traps that ...

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 ...