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There are just two species of echidna and they both lay eggs. They are the short-beaked echidna and the long-beaked echidna. Echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
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What is Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog?
Knuckles is an ECHIDNA, a type of spiny anteater which lays eggs.
What animal with spines lays eggs?
The echidna is an animal which lays eggs. The echidna is covered in spines. Like platypuses, echidnas are monotremes, or egg-laying mammals.
What mammal lays eggs and have dry scales?
No mammal lays eggs and has dry scales. The only mammals which lay eggs are monotremes, which include the platypus and the echidna, both of which have fur (while the echidna also has spines).
What type of mammal is a montreme?
A monotreme is a specialised mammal that lays eggs, but has all the other characteristics of mammals. They are platypus and echidna.
What makes an echidna different from other mammals?
It lays its young in eggs.
Name one mammal which lays eggs?
Egg laying mammals are the mammals classified as monotremes. These include the Platypus and various species of Echidna.
How many eggs does an echidna lay at one time?
The echidna usually lays just a single egg at a time.
Mammal that lays eggs beginning with the letter e?
This description fits the echidna.
Are echinoderms mammals that can lay eggs?
No, they are marine animals, including starfish. An echidna is a mammal that lays eggs.
What is a echida?
An echidna is a Australian mammal that is a monotreme and lays soft-shelled eggs and has a pouch.
If an echidna is not a mammal or marsupial it is what?
An echidna IS a mammal. It is an egg-laying mammal, known as a monotreme,
What is an echinada?
Do you perhaps mean an echidna ? If you do, it is a type of anteater that lives in Australia. It is a monotreme, a very primitive type of mammal that lays eggs. There are only three monotremes : the duckbilled platypus and two species of echidna that live in different parts of australia.
