Such telltale spurs are found only in egg-laying mammals _ known as monotremes _ such as the duck-billed platypus and a spiny anteater called an echidnas.
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The spiny anteater, pangolin and giant anteater all subsist on a diet of ants and termites, and myrmecophagy, it turns out, is a taxing, specialized trade.
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A : There are three : Millie, an echidna ( spiny anteater ); Olly, a kookaburra ( member of the kingfisher family ); and Syd, a platypus.
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Helicopters hovered overhead and dozens of photographers watched as Harry posed with a koala, a baby kangaroo, known as a joey, and an echidna, a spiny anteater.
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Despite their many resemblances, the three creatures are wildly unrelated to one another; the spiny anteater, in fact, lays eggs and is a close cousin of the duck-billed platypus.
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Helicopters hovered overhead and dozens of photographers watched as the 19-year-old prince posed with a koala, a baby kangaroo, known as a joey, and an echidna, a spiny anteater.
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The platypus ( formally called Ornithorhynchus anatinus ) and two species of echidnas ( or spiny anteaters ) are the sole living species of a mammalian order known as the monotremes ( meaning one-holers ).
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Examples of such designoid objects include the hedgehog and the spiny anteater ( both of which evolved pointed spines along their back ) and the marsupial wolf ( which looks like a dog but is actually a marsupial ).
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The "'Short-beaked Echidna "'( " Tachyglossus aculeatus " ), also commonly known as the "'spiny anteater "'because of its diet of ants and termites, is one of four living species of echidna and the only member of the genus " Tachyglossus ".
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Mammals are classified as belonging to one of three types : eutherians ( placental mammals that give birth to well-developed young ), marsupials ( which develop their young in pouches _ kangaroos, for example ) and monotremes ( spiny anteaters, called echidnas, and platypuses ), which lay eggs.
