If you're driving the Wheatbelt route into the town of Ravensthorpe on WA's remote south coast, there's a good chance you'll spot a 2-metre-tall echidna and a bull as tall as a truck.

Another reptilian characteristic is of course the fact the long-beaked echidna lays eggs. And while the female has a pouch like a marsupial, there’s one significant difference: this pouch isn ...

This rediscovered mammal, known as Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna and named for Sir David, has “the quills of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole,” said James ...