A Long-Lost Mammal Named After Sir David Attenborough | Has Been Found After 60 Years
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A Long-Lost Mammal Named After Sir David Attenborough | Has Been Found After 60 Years A Long-Lost Mammal Named After Sir David Attenborough | Has Been Found After 60 Years What is Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna? Imagine a creature that looks like a cross between a hedgehog, an anteater, and a mole. It has spines on its back, a long snout for probing the soil, and claws for digging. It lays eggs like a reptile, but feeds milk to its young like a mammal. It is one of the most ancient and bizarre animals on the planet, and it is named after one of the most famous and beloved naturalists of all time: Sir David Attenborough. This is Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a rare and elusive species of monotreme that lives in the remote Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia. Monotremes are a group of mammals that diverged from the rest of the mammalian evolutionary tree about 200 million years ago. They are the only living mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young. Attenborough’s