Long-lost mammal rediscovered in remote Indonesia mountains

An echidna walking amid vegetation in the Cyclops Mountains of Papua, Indonesia in this image taken on July 22 by the trail cameras of an Oxford University expedition. – Handout/Reuters

LONDON: Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of mammal – described as having the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole – in Indonesia's Cyclops Mountains, more than 60 years after it was last recorded.

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, named after British naturalist David Attenborough, was photographed for the first time by a trail camera on the last day of a four-week expedition led by Oxford University scientists.