The numbat is one of the Tasmanian tiger’s closest surviving relatives. And its newly sequenced genome raises the possibility of piecing together the genetic code of its extinct fellow marsupial.
Rare Echidna Puggle Born in Australian Zoo
On 5/7/21 at 5:25 PM EDT
On Friday, Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia, introduced a rare short-beaked echidna puggle in a video shared on Facebook. The new addition is around seven months old and has yet to be named.
Born in their breeding facility to mom Gunyi, the puggle the term used to describe baby echidnas was provided a natural environment with logs, rocks, pile of leaves to settle into after birth, according to a spokesperson from the Taronga Zoo.
Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are found commonly in Australia, Tasmania, and New Guinea. According to Britannica, they eat and breathe through a bald tubular beak protruding from a dome-shaped body covered in spines.
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