Name: Zaglossus - Giant Echidna - Sculpture & Statue
SKU: Echidina - Zaglossus hacketti
Availability: InStock

Giant Echidna – Zaglossus hacketti – Australian monotreme – 1 Metre long

Part of our unique Australian Megafauna Collection

Natureworks custom-designed this Zaglossus Hacketti to be part of the Megafauna exhibit at David Fleay’s Wildlife Park on the Gold Coast. The national conservation park highlights the need to preserve our wildlife and provides a valuable resource for educating visitors to help look after our existing unique Fauna.

Characteristics

This sculpture has been created with the known information of only a few bones that have been found in Western Australia dating back to the Pleistocene
1 metre high
600mm long
Custom designed and painted as a Megafauna Monotreme

Echidna facts

The Echidna and the Platypus are the only representatives of monotremes surviving
Descending from a platypus-like monotreme. This ancestor was aquatic, but echidnas adapted to life on land
The largest monotreme known to have ever lived
Has a long beak to help with foraging in termite mounds and old logs
This warm-blooded and produce milk
They do not gestate their young inside the womb nor do they keep them in a pouch ( like kangaroos) These ancient reptilian cousins lay eggs
Sturdy Limbs with an unusual gait
Echidnas are Australia’s most widespread native mammal (found in almost all habitats)
Not only do echidnas’ back feet point backwards, but their whole back leg is rotated 180 degrees. (walking on the soles of their rear feet)
An echidna baby is called a puggle
Echidnas make “snuffling” noises when they hunt for food

The close-up encounters in the Megafauna exhibit show the estimated size of the Zaglossus hacketti approximately 20 to 50 million years ago.

If you need help with bringing to life any palaeontological fossil finds – Natureworks will be able to help you build a museum-quality display.

Download our megafauna catalogue here

Natureworks Megafauna Life size Reconstructions Catalogue — Natureworks Megafauna Life-size Reconstructions

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Suited to:

Museum displays
Tourist information centres
Environmental education centres
Mini-golf courses
Educational display
palaeontological enthusiasts

If you need help bringing any fossils into museum quality exhibits or preparing them so that people can see all their intricacies – Natureworks can help you achieve them!

Weight	60 kg
Dimensions	100 × 60 cm

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