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JAKARTA — Researchers have credited a strong spirit of collaboration for the success of an expedition in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains that uncovered new sightings of a rare egg-laying mammal and multiple unidentified species. The highlight of the recently published findings was camera-trap images of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), which, like the distantly related but […]

In addition to Attenborough's echidna, scientists also discovered tree-dwelling shrimp and blind spiders in the Indonesian Cyclops mountains.

Scientists in Indonesia captured Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna on video for the first time in over 60 years.

A team of scientists from Oxford University has rediscovered a long-lost mammal known as Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi). What makes it special: The species, named after British biologist David Attenborough, has been photographed only once — in 1961 — and is currently critically endangered. It possesses physical features that resemble the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole.

An expedition through a perilous mountain range in Indonesia captured the first-ever photographic evidence of the species, which has a unique and fragile...