How to Use echidna in a Sentence

echidna

noun

• All that remains of that branch of the family tree is the platypus and four species of echidna.
  — National Geographic, 30 July 2016
• The dead echidna was still whole when the tiger shark vomited it back up, with its spines and legs still intact.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 6 June 2024
• The echidna’s eyes were irritated by hearth-smoke, so Afek told it to go to the high forest.
  — Tim Flannery, The New York Review of Books, 3 Dec. 2020
• There are only five existing species of monotremes: the platypus and four species of echidna.
  — Natalie Kainz, NBC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• For instance, monotremes such as the platypus and echidna belong to a unique and ancient class of mammals.
  — Gat Rauner, The Conversation, 13 Aug. 2024
• Monotremes, such as the platypus and echidna, took refuge in Australia and New Guinea, where a scant five species remain today.
  — Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
• The echidna — an egg-laying mammal that looks like a hedgehog with a long snout — has no nipples at all.
  — Elizabeth Preston, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
• Australia’s echidna, like the platypus, belongs to an odd group of mammals that lay eggs, known as monotremes.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• Only two types of monotremes, the platypus and echidna, still exist, but more monotreme species were around about 100 million years ago.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• Now, a team of scientists has discovered some of the strategies the echidna employs to stay cool.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
• One side would go up into the Cyclops Mountains to search for an echidna while the other party would go to the ocean to find a marlin.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• Knuckles, a red echidna with spiky knuckles who’s sometimes a friend and foe of Sonic in the games, is voiced by Idris Elba.
  — Jennifer Yuma, Variety, 9 Dec. 2021
• While the echidna calmly walks across the dirt, the wombat starts flinging dirt and spinning in frantic circles.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2024
• That was not the case with his latest character, a surly red cartoon echidna named Knuckles.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• The earliest mammals, much like reptiles, laid eggs just as the duckbilled platypus and the echidna do today.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2022
• Scientists say the samples can help them learn about echidna health, diet and stress levels.
  — Mike Cherney, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• With a long, sticky tongue, a penchant for snacking on ants and termites, and a body covered in barbless quills called spines, the echidna is also known as a spiny anteater.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• Despite being one of the world’s oldest surviving species, the echidna is also thought to be sensitive to heat.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• The short-beaked echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus, is one of four living species of echidna.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2016
• The echidna, on the other hand, has a more restricted territory.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 June 2023
• Areas of pale and white fur on the platypus, koala, bilby and Tasmanian devil glowed, as did the white quills and pouch skin of the short-beaked echidna and parts of the southern hairy-nosed wombat’s pale fur.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Besides their keen sense of smell, echidnas’ spines are a key protection mechanism.
  — Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
• In future studies, Cooper and her colleagues plan to model how much heat the echidna loses as its snot evaporates and its spines shift.
  — Byjack Tamisiea, science.org, 17 Jan. 2023
• The echidna, an egg-laying mammal, doesn't develop teeth.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024
• Cookie can’t lay an egg, but a volcanic eruption turns his New Zealand refuge upside down and sets a curious soft echidna’s egg in his path.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 14 June 2023
• From the Australia tour, per The Telegraph: They were handed at least 97 soft toys and teddies, including 11 koalas, five kangaroos, four kiwis and one echidna.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 5 Apr. 2019
• Many birds lay white, unpigmented eggs—as do all lizards, turtles, crocodiles, and the only known egg-laying mammals, the platypus and the echidna.
  — National Geographic, 18 Sep. 2017
• Australia’s echidna has developed a curious way to cool off — blowing bubbles out of its beaklike snout.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Jan. 2023
• But researchers almost did not locate the rare species, Kempton said, noting that the images of the echidna were not found until looking at the last SD card on the final day of the long expedition.
  — Michael Lee, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2023
• And both echidnas and platypuses are considered monotremes.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2024