Natalie Angier Valentine #689

[jesse_the_k]

This science writer (NYTimes and many lovely books) never fails to bring a smile to my lips and insight to my brain:

begin quote [Researcher] had seen them once or twice in captivity and in photographs—plump, terrier-size creatures abristle with so many competing notes of crane, mole, pig, turtle, tribble, Babar and boot scrubber that if they didn’t exist, nobody would think to Photoshop them. quote ends

Her topic today is the Echidna.