Despite once being described as common, mammals have been lost across the Australian landscape over the last 200 years. The impact has been particularly severe on Australia’s digging mammals, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American How much soil would a bandicoot dig if a ...

With no nipples and reptilelike eggs, short-beaked echidnas look like a first draft of a mammal. Yet, as Australia’s other digging mammals decline from invasive predators, the well-defended echidna is ...