Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping

Attenborough’s echidna rediscovered by combining Indigenous knowledge with camera-trapping

Abstract We confirm the ‘rediscovery’ of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), one of only five modern egg-laying mammals and, until now, one of the planet’s most enigmatic ‘lost species’. Unrecorded for 62 years, we present the first scientific evidence of its survival to th...

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Main Authors: G. Morib, A. Tilker, L.-R Davranoglou, S. D. Anasari, A. Balázs, P. A. Barnes, M. J. Foote, A. Hamidy, C. D. Heatubun, K. M. Helgen, N. Inayah, M. K. Ikhwan, H. Jayanto, H. J. Keiluhu, I. Kobak, M. Kobak, L. Koungoulos, P. Norotouw, S. O’Connor, S. B. Subakti, Taufiq, P. J. de Vries, M. Webb, S. Wiantoro, H. Yando, A. M. Yohanita, J. A. Kempton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-05-01
Series:npj Biodiversity
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-025-00086-6
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