We Thought It Was Gone Forever—Then This Bizarre Egg-Laying Mammal Reappeared
We thought it was gone forever. Sixty years. Not a single sighting. Then, on the very last day of an expedition deep in the Indonesian jungle, a camera trap snapped a photo—blurry, strange, unmistakable. The creature was real. Still alive. Still clinging to its corner of the Earth. It’s called Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna—a spiny, egg-laying …