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3 unusual facts about echidna


Ken Penders

In December 2011, Penders announced plans to utilize Echidna characters he created for the comics in a graphic novel series entitled The Lara-Su Chronicles.

He primarily worked on the former side-series Knuckles the Echidna before it was cancelled due to poor sales in 1999, though he continued to produce stories and artwork for the main title until 2006.

Wyanbene Caves

A sheep and cattle farming area, there is still much wildlife including wombats, greater gliders, Wedge-tailed Eagle, Echidna, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, wallabies, Red-bellied Black Snakes, Tiger Snake, Cunningham's Skink and native fish in the Wyanbene Creek and nearby Shoalhaven and Duea rivers.


Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

The owls, carrying Mrs. P in Twilight's lute, fly towards the sea of Hoolemere where a murder of crows chaotically guides them to the legendary shrine and gateway of the Guardians, kept by an oracular echidna (Barry Otto), who provides comic, but accurate, descriptions of the quintet and guidance to the object of their quest.

Prototheria

The egg-laying monotremes are known from fossils of the Cretaceous and Cenozoic periods; they are represented today by the platypus and several species of echidna.

Z. robustus

Zaglossus robustus, an extinct long-beaked echidna species from the Pleistocene of Tasmania


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