echidna|echidnas in English

noun

burrowing spine-covered monotreme of Australia having a long snout and claws for hunting ants and termites (Zoology)

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1. The western long-beaked echidna, species Zaglossus bruijni, is one of the four extant echidnas and one of three species of Zaglossus that occur in New Guinea.

2. The Echidna leads the GTMS Team Australia defense.

3. Echidna: How shameful to be beaten by a human...!

4. The world's only monotremes are the platypus and the echidna.

5. One of the mascots for the 2000 Olympics, in Australia, is the echidna.

6. It is one of only two mammals (the echidna is the other) that lay eggs.

7. Charlatan is the name given to multiple clones of Trickster created by Echidna

8. The short-Beaked echidna, still alive and thriving in Australia today, has five claws, a smaller beak, and is half the size of the long-Beaked echidna, which can weigh up to …

9. The platypus, along with its cousins the echidnas, is an egg-laying mammal yet suckles its young on milk!

10. The ancient short-beaked echidnas are considered to be identical to their contemporary descendants except the ancestors are around 10% smaller.

11. The Australian short-beaked echidna, a monotreme, is one of the oldest living mammals on earth.

12. There were once hundreds of monotreme species, but there are only five left: four species of echidnas and the duck-billed platypus.

13. The echidna lays eggs like a duck but suckles its young in a pouch like a kangaroo.

14. The short-Beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus Tachyglossus.It is covered in fur and spines and has a distinctive snout and a specialized tongue, which it uses to catch its insect prey at a great speed.Like the other extant monotremes, the short-Beaked echidna lays eggs; the monotremes are the only group of mammals to

15. But the best was yet to come when Jackson's well-trained eye spotted an echidna scurrying under a tree.

16. The earliest fossils of the short-beaked echidna date back around 15 million years ago to the Pleistocene era, and the oldest specimens were found in caves in South Australia, often with fossils of the long-beaked echidna from the same period.

17. Like the platypus, the echidna has a low body temperature—between 30 and 32 °C (86 and 90 °F)—but, unlike the platypus, which shows no evidence of torpor or hibernation, the body temperature of the echidna may fall as low as 5 °C (41 °F).

18. Both the platypus and the echidna lay soft-shelled eggs, and both feed their young with milk that leaks out through their skin.

19. What science has learned about the echidna in the past 200 years and why there are still large gaps is reported here.

20. Secondly (4.8), a legend told by the Pontic Greeks featuring Scythes, the first king of the Scythians, as a child of Hercules and Echidna.

21. Unlike other mammals, which typically have highly acidic stomachs, the echidna has low levels of acidity, almost neutral, with pH in the 6.2–7.4 range.

22. The echidna is such a unique animal that it is classified in a special class of mammals known as monotremes, which it shares only with the platypus.

23. Together with the four species of echidna, it is one of the five extant species of monotremes, the only mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young.

24. A previous study of early monotreme fossils had suggested the platypus and the echidna diverged more than 110 million years ago, far longer than the genetic analysis indicates.

25. Female echidnas lay one egg a year and the mating period is the only time the otherwise solitary animals meet one another; the male has no further contact with the female or his offspring after mating.