article_snippet: Being monotremes, echidnas produce young from eggs which are hatched outside echidnas body, in the same way as birds and most reptiles.
article_snippet: Young echidnas are often not fully weaned until Young echidnas are at least several months old .
article_snippet: Although Young echidnas begin to eat termites and ants soon after leaving the pouch, Young echidnas are often not fully weaned until Young echidnas are several months old.
article_snippet: Young echidnas evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago, descending from a platypus-like creatures.
article_snippet: This ancestor was aquatic, but echidnas adapted to life on land.