The photos and video were taken at night, so it might be easy to mistake the animal's spines for fur in the photo. "Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an ...

“It was a fully intact echidna with all its spines and its legs,” the scientist said. "It’s very rare that they throw up their food but sometimes when they get stressed they can,” Lubitz said.

A rare and boisterous encounter between a young wombat and a spiny echidna has been caught on camera, to the delight of Australian conservationists. The exuberant behaviour captured by a camera ...