Echidnas are seemingly everywhere in Australia, from the Red Centre to snowy mountains. And that’s just the start of what makes them interesting
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Floods allow aquatic animals to venture into places you wouldn’t expect, from crocs in swimming pools to bull sharks in a golf course.
Excavator, farmer, matchmaker: echidnas provide a host of benefits to nature. So let’s harness the potential.
As the holiday season begins after months of reduced travel, wildlife hospitals are braced for a new wave of admissions.
Echidnas can survive quite low levels of oxygen.
Searching for animals thought to be extinct – or fictional – is difficult, painstaking and often disappointing. But new technology like drones offer hope of a boom in biological discovery.
Physiological, molecular and fossil evidence suggests that ancestors of both platypuses and echidnas were venomous. Male…
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Dryland Ecology, UNSW Sydney
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Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in behavioural ecology and evolution, Macquarie University
