Researchers rediscover an echidna named after David Attenborough
Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, a mammal with a unique evolutionary history, was caught on camera for the first time. Researchers hope their find advances conservation efforts in remote Indonesia.
When a spiny, snouted egg-laying mammal moseyed into the frame of a camera nestled in a remote Indonesian rainforest, researchers found out an ancient echidna species thought to be extinct is very much still alive.
The rediscovery of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named in honor of British naturalist and filmmaker David Attenborough, came during an expedition this past summer led by Oxford University
