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The Echidna is very distantly related to the platypus, as both creatures are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
The echidna does not have any close relatives.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoYou would call them completely different.
Hedgehogs are placental mammals, and echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
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∙ 11y agoNot at all. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. Hedgehogs are placental mammals. The two are not related even remotely.
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∙ 11y agoThey are not closely related, even. The porcupine is a mammal that bears live young, and the echidna or spiny anteater is a monotreme: it lays eggs, but is otherwise like a mammal.
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∙ 9y agoNo. The echidna and the hedgehog are not related at all. Although both mammals, the hedgehog is a placental mammal while the echidna is a monotreme, or egg-laying mammal.
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∙ 11y agoThe Echidna is very distantly related to the platypus, as both creatures are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals. The echidna does not have any close relatives.
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16 btw he's an echidna
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Vicious the Echidna is the more powerful incarnation of Vicious the Hedgehog
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knuckles love 3 girl call rouge the bat from sonic x, Sonia the hedgehog from sonic underground and julie-sue the echidna from sonic comic but he did not like shade the echidna and tikal the echidna
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Amy Rose is a hedgehog.
Did Knuckles the Echidna have any children in Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog?
No, He doesn't.
When was Julie-Su the Echidna's first appearance in the Sonic the Hedgehog comics?
Julie-Su first appeared in Archie Knuckles the Echidna issue 4. but her first appearance in Sonic the Hedgehog was issue #53
Animals that are monotrems?
they are platypus ant eater hedgehog echidna and bob the builder
