A grazier has found a rare albino echidna near Tambo, south-east of Longreach in western Queensland. Grazier John Jones from south of Tambo came across the white echidna on a property he manages, saying he has never seen anything like it. He took it to the ...

A commercial airline taking off from Gold Coast Airport last week was forced to halt its departure to allow a an echidna and a turtle to waddle off the runway. While the airport’s 24/7 animal-free airspace operations are usually on the look-out for bird ...

Tired of having to deal with people’s arses being shoved in its face, the Wild Chair has developed a set of spiky quills, like an echidna, allowing it to finally fight back against aggressive sitters. Actually, it’s just a far out design project cooked ...

THE female echidnas at Currumbin Wildlife Hospital will be left disappointed if they expect romantic candlelit ant and termite feasts and all-night spooning with their prickly mate when breeding season starts soon. Their unchivalrous spiky mates prefer to ...

One is the Platypus ; the other, the Echidna. The Platypus has fur ; the Echidna has spikes. Both lay eggs, which sets them apart from other mammals. The Platypus grows to about 64 feet in length, and eats cars with people inside them.

The marsupial world seems to sport other strange dick facts. The echidna, native to Australia, has a four-headed penis. Only two of the heads are used during mating, though. The other two shut down and don’t grow during sex. The echidna swaps out its ...

This idea had some grounding. Darwin would have studied monotremes – egg-laying mammals such as the echidna. Monotremes have nipple-less mammary patches, and these secrete a fluid that provides moisture to permeable eggs. But milk contains 100 times the ...

Remember how locking Sonic the Hedgehog 2 onto Sonic and Knuckles allowed you play as the red echidna in the former? Well, that was cool, not just because we were Knuckles, but because he played differently than Sonic. His gliding and climbing ...

Our exclamations are interrupted by screams of delight from farther along the beach. The cause of the commotion is an echidna making tracks across the sand. It is adorably burying its nose in the sand and we are so excited we accuse our guides of ...

"Our global economic and environmental challenges call for fresh approaches and innovative policy development." Grant joins Echidna Michael Grant is the newest member of Echidna Corp., a London website and database development firm. Grant, who will be a ...