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The short-beaked echidna, aka common echidna, short-nosed echidna, or spiny anteater, can be found throughout Australia, into Papua New Guinea, and Tasmania. They tolerate a wide range of habitats like Australian desert habitats, coastal forests, dry inland areas, heathlands, meadows, woodlands, agricultural areas, and the outer regions of urban areas. […]

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The eastern long-beaked echidna, aka Barton’s long-beaked echidna, hails from New Guinea and prefers sub-alpine forests, tropical hill forests, upland grasslands, and scrub habitats. They can be seen at elevations of up to 13,615 feet. Due to habitat destruction at the hands of mining and agriculture, as well as being […]

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And now on to the bizarre… By now you’ve, no doubt, heard of the incredibly strange and amazing duck billed platypus. These monotremes are so unique that they deserve an article; and here it is. The unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed, venomous mammal baffled European naturalists when […]

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Echidnas, also known as spiny anteaters, are very interesting critters. They are similar to the platypus, as far as being odd. They hail from Australia, Tasmania, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Echidnas are mammals but they also lay eggs. The echidna has spines like a porcupine, a beak like a […]

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