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Why Do Echidnas Have Four-Headed Penises?

There may be animals with double penises (like lizards, snakes or sharks) out there, others to possess a double-headed penis (like marsupials), but echidna is unique: it has a four-headed penis! Scientists have been puzzled by this odd anatomy. Echidna does not even use its penis for urination and it gets it out of t...

27 October 2007
06:48 GMT

Egg Laying Mammal Found Alive in the Mountains of New Guinea

This living fossil was thought to have been extinct. Till recently, an expedition on Papua's Cyclops Mountains revealed that the egg-laying mammal, baptized after the famous TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, is still alive, as proven by burrows and tracks. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is known to ...

17 July 2007
07:17 GMT




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