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Researchers rediscovered a spiky, beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough that hasn't been seen for 60 years and was thought to be extinct
Scientists captured images of an elusive echidna named after the British biologist Sir David Attenborough for the first time in over 60 years. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was last recorded ...
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Ten reasons to love echidnas
Echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus) are solitary mammals with many peculiar quirks. Out of the four species that exist today, three are the rare long-beaked echidnas, only found in New Guinea. The ...
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Echidna genome study unravels the events leading to multiple sex chromosomes
The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is one of Australia's most iconic animals. Belonging to a unique group of mammals called "monotremes" (with the platypus as the other prominent ...
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Camera trap 1 (IMAGE)
student and team member Gison Morib setting up one of the eighty camera traps which were placed in the Cyclops Mountains in order to capture images of Attenborough's long-beaked echidna for the ...