Murrayglossus is an extinct genus of echidna from the Pleistocene of Western Australia. It contains a single species, Murrayglossus hacketti, also called Hackett's giant echidna.

In Greek mythology, Echidna (/ ɪ ˈ k ɪ d n ə /; Ancient Greek: Ἔχιδνα, romanized: Ékhidna, lit. 'she-viper', pronounced) [2] was a monster, half-woman and half-snake, who lived alone in a …

Murrayglossus, also known as Hackett's giant echidna, is an extinct genus of echidna monotreme that lived in New Guinea during the Pleistocene. Murrayglossus was one of the largest …

It contains a single species, Murrayglossus hacketti, the giant echidna, an extinct species of echidna from Western Australia that is dated to the Pleistocene. It is known only from a few …

Echidnas (/ ɪˈkɪdnəz /), sometimes known as spiny anteaters, [1] are quill-covered [2] monotremes (egg-laying mammals) belonging to the family Tachyglossidae / tækiˈɡlɒsɪdiː /, living in …

A species of echidna which was apparently more upright in its posture than living echidnas, on account of its much longer limb bones (Glauert, 1914; Flannery et al., 2022). Its ecology is …

2014年6月23日 · The media went wild over the extinct Giant Echidna (Zaglossus hackettii) heralding the discovery to be “the palaeontological event of the year”. The excitement was …

2023年2月22日 · Murrayglossus hacketti, also known as Hackett's giant echidna, is the only known species of this genus, and its fossils have been found in Western Australia, dating back …

Murrayglossus hacketti is an extinct species of giant echidna from Western Australia that is dated to the Pleistocene. It is known only from a few bones. It was about 1 m long and probably …

Zaglossus hacketti, the giant echidna, is an extinct species of long-beaked echidna from Western Australia that is dated to the Pleistocene. It is known only from a few bones. It was about 1 m …