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Echidna ancestors lived watery lifestyles like platypuses 100 million years ago – new study

By Sue Hand, Professor Emeritus, Palaeontology, UNSW Sydney
Camilo López-Aguirre, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
Laura A. B. Wilson, ARC Future Fellow, Head of Biological Anthropology, Australian National University
Robin Beck, Lecturer in Biology, University of Salford

A controversial idea suggests the ancestors of echidnas were more like the platypus. For the first time, fossil evidence might support it.

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