If you need a pick-me-up this week, these delightful echidna puggles may be able to lend a chubby hand. According to Australia's Herald Sun, a pai...

A tiny echidna is receiving some lifesaving tender loving care this week after being rescued from a trail in western Australia. The puggle, as bab...

I've just finished filming my new series, Freaks and Creeps for National Geographic Wild, in which I travel to the furthest corners of the planet to seek out the world's most bizarre animals and discover the secrets behind their oddness.

Being a thorny or spiny animal definitely has its advantages in nature. While these animals can use their spikes to attack their prey, such spikes al...

Today, the New York Times has my favorite description of an animal ever -- thank you, Natalie Angier, for this: He had seen them once or twice in cap...