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'Extinct' egg-laying mammal rediscovered in jungles of New Guinea mongabay.com July 15, 2007
The creature, called Attenborough's long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi) after TV personality Sir David Attenborough, was only known to biologists through a specimen dating from 1961. The burrowing marsupial was rediscovered by a team of scientists on a month-long expedition in Cyclops Mountains Reserve organized by the Zoological Society of London. "We hope that Sir David Attenborough will be delighted to hear that his namesake species is still surviving in the wilds of the Papaun jungle," BBC News quoted Jonathan Baillie, ZSL's Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (Edge) program manager as saying.
The team plans to return next year to the Cyclops Mountains to photograph the species, according to BBC News. The discovery was made near the Foja mountains where scientists discovered dozens of unknown species in 2006. Comments? News options
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