spiny anteater

People commonly know them as the platypus and the spiny anteaters.

The four others are the spiny anteaters, or the echidna.

They are known as the Spiny anteaters because they eat ants and termites.

Australia also has a burrowing anteater, the spiny anteater.

These are the duck-billed platypus and a couple of spiny anteaters, or echidnas.

Cuvier proposed the genus Echidna in 1797 for the spiny anteater.

Black Spiny Anteater: Appears in episode 34.

Among mammals, early extinct species laid eggs, as do platypuses and echidnas (spiny anteaters).

The 5 cent coin depicts an echidna, or spiny anteater, the world's only other egg-laying mammal.

All mammals that have been tested have REM sleep, except spiny anteaters."

"An echidna," Pitt said, "is an egg-laying spiny anteater.

"Spiny anteaters?"

The most primitive of the armoured mammals are the five species of echidnas, or spiny anteaters, from Australasia.

Kangaroos, crimson rosellas, echidnas also known as "spiny anteaters" and wallabies frequent the area.

Echidna, the spiny anteater, is a monotreme that lives in Australia and in New Guinea.

The features of the front limb indicate that the animal was fossorial, employing scratch digging like modern moles, gophers, and spiny anteaters.

Order Tachyglossa: echidnas (spiny anteaters)

The spiny anteater, too, has a long pointed snout, but its spines give it a superficial resemblance to a hedgehog rather than to another typical anteater.

Among living mammals they include the platypus and four species of echidnas (or spiny anteaters); there is debate regarding monotreme taxonomy.

The eggs of the egg-laying mammals (the platypus and the spiny anteaters) are macrolecithal eggs very much like those of reptiles.

Despite their many resemblances, the three creatures are unrelated to one another; the spiny anteater, in fact, lays eggs and is a close cousin of the duck-billed platypus.

This meant that when Georges Cuvier proposed to use this name Echidna in 1797 for the spiny anteater he created a junior homonym.

Take the spiny anteater of Australia, the pangolin of Africa, and the giant anteater of Latin America (please!)

Setting aside the strange egg-laying mammals of Australia - the duck-billed platypus and the spiny anteaters - modern mammals all belong to one of two great groups.

The point was well put by Mazuma, the high priest, when he said: "[Squashed-figure-with-broken-nose, jaguar claw, three feathers, stylised spiny anteater]."