Echidna - The Spiky Enigmas

Spiky, and walking around their varied habitats with a swagger because of their atypical posture, Echidna are some of our planet's most unusual denizens, and are animals that are some of the most fascinating to still be living today. On a surface level regarding their appearance, they alongside a range of other spiny mammals, like hedgehogs, tenrecs, porcupines, and the lesser known golden spiny mouse all look rather similar and would be all thought to be rather closely related to one another based on their appearance alone. As we’ll get into over the course of this rather long video, this is very much far from the truth, and they’re all quite different from each other, in some cases having split off from one another well over 170 million years ago, with echidna being some of the most peculiar of them all.
I hope you enjoy!

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Spirit of Fire - Jesse Gallagher
State Azure - Rocinante
The Gentlemen
Trickling Up
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Underwater Exploration
Dixie Outlandish
Picturesque - Alex Arcoleo
After All - Geographer
How About It
Beginnings - Intro


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