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These adorable Australian spike-balls beat the heat with snot bubbles

The finding reveals how echidnas survive in temperatures that should kill them

an echidna standing in tall grass

Echidnas, spiky egg-laying mammals that live across Australia, blow snot bubbles to keep cool, a new study finds.

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By Elise Cutts

- More than 2 years ago

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Animals cover themselves in all kinds of unsavory fluids to keep cool.