What is the other egg laying mammal?

Question

I know that a platypus lays eggs, but what is the only other mammal that lays eggs?

Answer 1

the enchinada ( not to sure how to spell it ) it kinda looks like a porkipine

Answer 2

It IS the echidna or spiny anteater.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna

If it is for an essay rather than a one-word-answer quiz, looking into WHY is very interesting (but could take the rest of your life - and never trust wikipedia for the absolute answer, or indeed the truth).

Answer 3

Yeah, a platapus and an echidnas.

Rather interesting, it says on a web site :  Monotremes are among the small number of mammalian species known to be capable of electroreception

cool

Answer 4

The echidna AKA the spiny anteater.

Answer 5

There are two species of echidna (spiny anteater) that lay eggs: The long-nosed and short-nosed, both from Australia

Answer 6

the echidna (spiny anteater)

Answer 7

There is a class of mammals that lay eggs, called monotremes. Monotremes include the platypus and then several types of echidna.