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Aug 10^th, 2025 at 6:03am

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Echidna mothers change their pouch microbiome to protect tiny ‘pink jelly bean’ puggles, new research finds

Egg-laying monotremes have no nipples, so young rub their beaks against ‘milk patch’ to get milk from mother’s skin

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/16/echidna-mothers-change-their...
Photo of a “puggle” emerging from its egg.

Monotremes, like the echidna and platypus, evolved earlier than marsupial and placental mammals. Some of the primitive traits are that young develop in eggs like reptiles and birds and the milk provided by the mother seeps out of an area of skin, not out of specialised mammary glands. But milk is provided to young so they are mammals.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/16/echidna-mothers-change-their...

The puggle looks cute, not?

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Jovial Monk Moderator Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 51474 Gender:	Re: Puggles Reply #1 - Aug 11^th, 2025 at 3:22pm There is another bird-like feature of our echidnas: their spikes are like the basal part of a bird feather. Yet mammals evolved from one type of reptile nit bird, weird eh?
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