echidna

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• The Australian fossil record of monotremes also includes some quite good Miocene and Pleistocene fossils of giant echidnas.
• Not for the first time it struck Buncan that Clothahump went through famuli the way an echidna went through termites. The Lives of Felix Gunderson
• It is curious, too, to note that echidnas also possess spurs but their venom gland is non-functional.
• The platypus and the echidna - a nocturnal, burrowing mammal with a spiny coat, long claws, and no teeth - are the only known living members of a type of animal known as monotremes.
• Like the echidna, an adult platypus has no teeth.
• In the echidna, anteaters, and pangolins, there are qualitative differences in tongue construction.
• I also stroked a wallaby/kangaroo/wallaroo - there were loads of them just wandering around freely amongst the visitors which I thought was great - and saw echidnas, emus, cassowaries, a dingo (looked like any other dog!), wombats, Tasmanian devils, quokkas (never heard of them), bilbies (likewise!), flying foxes (great big brown bats), and tiny penguins. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
• The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.
• Perth Zoo is another fine place to see native wildlife, such as the platypus and echidna that were the inspiration for the Olympic mascots.
• The mascots at the Summer 2000 games in Sydney, Australia, were a platypus named Syd, an echidna called Millie, and a kookaburra called Olly.