Video of the Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was remotely captured by trail cameras.
A scientific expedition on the island of New Guinea, led by Oxford University researchers, proved fruitful as the first-ever photographic evidence of the Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was collected.The echidna, named after David Attenborough, was thought to be extinct, as the only evidence of the mammal that existed was a decades-old 'museum specimen of a dead animal,' according to the BBC.
The researchers also discovered on the last day of their expedition, on the last images of their final memory card, that they spotted the echidna.Oxford Biology also took to X to celebrate the discovery on Friday writing, 'The team battled leeches, malaria, and >11,000m of climbing in the Cyclops Mountains to capture the first ever images of the species.'Newsweek has reached out to the expedition team via an online portal for additional comment.
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