Echidna captive breeding partnership between the University of Queensland and Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary in Australia has produced 14 short-beaked echidna puggles (or babies) in the last five years.

The impossible became the possible with the birth of four baby echidnas over the past two months at Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary on the Gold Coast. The four new echidna babies (called puggles) join ...

An echidna-breeding partnership between The University of Queensland and the Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary has proved so successful that researchers hope their model could help save endangered echidna ...

A baby echidna born at Perth Zoo will be closely watched as part of a research project to help save a separate endangered species of echidna found only in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Indonesia. The ...

Knowledge of monotreme reproduction is also relevant for conservation and captive breeding programs. Researchers are excited that the new genome sequences also provide a roadmap for genetic management ...

Perth Zoo has welcomed two baby echidnas, in what has been described as a world-first breeding milestone. The two babies, known as puggles, have been named Nyingarn (Nyoongar for echidna) and Babbin ...