The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

“It was a fully intact echidna with all its spines and its legs,” the scientist said. "It’s very rare that they throw up their food but sometimes when they get stressed they can,” Lubitz said.

In male echidna there are nine sex chromosomes while platypus has an even 10. The male echidna has five X chromosomes, but only four Y chromosomes, whereas the male platypus has five X and five Y).

A rare and boisterous encounter between a young wombat and a spiny echidna has been caught on camera, to the delight of ...