Balanced News: Attenborough’s lost-beaked echidna named after legendary broadcaster is rediscovered after over 60 years

Scientists have rediscovered the long-lost Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, named after Sir David Attenborough, in a tropical forest in Indonesia. The egg-laying mammal, thought to be extinct, was captured on camera for the first time by trail cameras set up by Oxford University researchers. Echidnas are part of a group of egg-laying mammals that separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life 200 million years ago. The discovery was made on the final day of a four-week expedition, and the researchers also found several other new species, including a bird lost to science since 2008.