The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium celebrates its first puggle, a baby short-beaked echidna, born in December 2025.

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) ...

“So Milly (puggle) was found back in the middle of November, she was just discovered on her own, without her mother. We estimate her age at about 35 days when she came in and, which at that age she ...

A new baby is ready for her close-up, just watch out for those spikes. Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is sharing images of Sydney the puggle. A puggle is a baby echidna, an Australian relative of the ...

A sweet, little echidna baby was hatched at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park for the first time in its history earlier this year, according to the city staple. The echidna baby, which is called an ...

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 ...