For 35 years American researcher Peggy Rismiller has been studying Kangaroo Island's animals, from snakes to echidnas.

Echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are solitary mammals with many peculiar quirks. Out of the four species that exist today, three are the rare long-beaked echidnas, only found in New Guinea. The ...

Spiky, furry and with a beak, echidnas have been called "living fossils". They are thought to have emerged about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. What is biodiversity and ...

Echidnas blow snot bubbles and do belly flops to keep themselves cool in the Australian heat, new research has found. The native animals are believed to be less tolerant to hot weather than other ...

Monotremes, found only in Australia and New Guinea, are unique mammals that lay eggs, combining features of reptiles and ...

Echidnas are silent, hot water bottle sized mammals that don’t seem to have gotten the memo about doing all the things mammals are supposed to. They lay eggs like a reptile. They sense ...

At the turn of this century, seeing a wild jaguar was exceptionally difficult. People driving through the Jaguar Ecological ...

Queensland scientists have identified a toxin in bull ant venom that seems to have cleverly evolved specifically to target short-beaked echidnas, the main predator of ants in the Aussie bush.

“Wildlife often graces the garden and poolside cabana, from visiting birdlife to echidnas and wallabies.” Take a dip at the ...

But in the rush to build, something truly gruesome occurred and it's been buried underneath hundreds of family homes along ...

Removing wildlife carcasses from the road is a usual morning for Jason Cichocki but he says a new technology has more than ...