Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Over 200 million year old mammal, the Long-Beaked Echidna, rediscovered alive! Latin name based on David Attenborough!

 The long-beaked echidna is one of just five egg-laying mammals in existence today, including the platypus and two other species of modern echidna, the researchers said.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/scientists-confirmed-existence-200-million-year-species-thought/story?id=122773046 

 

 Suspected footage of Zaglossus attenboroughi -- the long-beaked echidna named after famed English broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough -- was initially captured in 2023 by Oxford University during an expedition to the Cyclops Mountains, a rugged rainforest in Indonesia.

Last seen by Western scientists 60 years ago!

 These mammals are the "sole living representatives" of monotreme -- or egg-laying -- lineage that diverged from therians, or marsupials and placental mammals, more than 200 million years ago, according to the paper.

 figure 2

 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44185-025-00086-6#Fig2

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