Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna's Mysterious 'Pseudo-Pouch'

Scientists Peered Inside The Echidna's Mysterious 'Pseudo-Pouch'

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia's wackiest animals. They're mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that's the word for a newborn echidna) hatches from an egg. Now, biologists from the University of Adelaide in Australia have taken a closer look at what is going on inside the 'pseudo-pouches' of short-beaked echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) while they rear their young.Echidnas don…