The elusive wildlife animal Attenborough echidna rediscovered in Indonesia

This handout from Expedition Cyclops taken with a camera trap on July 22, 2023 and released on November 9, 2023 shows Attenborough's long-beaked echidna on the Cyclops mountains of Indonesia's Papua Province. An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing for six decades has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia, on an expedition that also found a new kind of tree-dwelling shrimp. - AFP

JAKARTA (AFP): An elusive echidna feared extinct after disappearing for six decades has been rediscovered in a remote part of Indonesia, on an expedition that also found a new kind of tree-dwelling shrimp.

The Zaglossus Attenboroughi, a kind of long-beaked echidna named for famed British naturalist David Attenborough, had last been seen in 1961.