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.
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.
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