Only five mammal species in the world have the ability to lay eggs: the duck-billed platypus, the western long-beaked echidna ...

Spiky, furry and with a beak, echidnas have been called ... Of the four echidna species three have long beaks, with the Attenborough echidna, and the western echidna considered critically endangered.

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named after famed broadcaster ... Alongside the echidna's rediscovery, the expedition—a partnership between the University of Oxford, Indonesian NGO Yayasan ...

Echidnas lay a single egg, incubated in a temporary pouch until it hatches into a puggle. The western long-beaked echidna ...