COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A tiny, unusual baby animal is making history at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. For the first time, a recently hatched echidna, known as a puggle, has survived its early ...

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that's the word for a newborn echidna) ...

With no nipples and reptilelike eggs, short-beaked echidnas look like a first draft of a mammal. Yet, as Australia’s other digging mammals decline from invasive predators, the well-defended echidna is ...