Echidna Skull, Short Beaked

Echidna Skull, Short Beaked. Tachyglossus aculeatus. Montremata spiny, egg-laying, ant-eater of Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea.

* Size: 4.5 inch (11cm)
* Museum quality replicas are cast in durable Polyurethane resins.
* Made in USA

Echidnas, sometimes known as Spiny Anteaters belong to the family Tachyglossidae in the monotreme order of egg-laying mammals.

Echidnas evidently evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago, descending from a platypus-like monotreme. This ancestor was aquatic, but echidnas adapted to life on land.

Echidnas when fully grown a female can weigh up to 4.5 kilograms and a male can weigh up to 6 kilograms.[8] You can determine the echidnas' sex by their size; males are 25% larger than females.