Two baby echidnas are getting round-the-clock care after their burrows were accidentally dug up in rural Victoria, Australia. Both puggles were unearthed during separate construction jobs, a reminder ...

The Australian Reptile Park has a second baby echidna (known as puggles) for the first time in its history. Just months after discovering the Park’s first-ever echidna puggle, affectionately named ...

Rose is a short-beaked echidna who lives at the Taronga Conservation Society in Australia. They drink by extending their 18-centimeter tongue into the water. When it is too warm, the echidna will blow ...

Taking care of a baby is a 24-hour-a-day job, and as you quickly realize, you’re still on duty even when your infant is asleep. That’s where a baby monitor can help. These clever devices—which have ...

I learned from Amy Leach’s delightful “The Salt of the Universe” book that a baby groundhog is called a “chuckling.” That’s much cuter than the expletives I used to let fly when the coterie of ...

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is partnering with an Australian zoo to study how climate change is affecting platypuses as a way to save the egg-laying mammal. The species is declining because of ...

The world’s first platypus conservation center is now open. The initiative will serve as a beacon of hope for the semi-aquatic species whose population has been declining for decades. The Platypus ...