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Jordan King

Echidna: Egg-laying mammal 'who roamed the Earth with dinosaurs' is rediscovered

An ancient egg-laying mammal which some thought may have been extinct has been rediscovered.

The Attenborough echidna, named after British naturalist David Attenborough, was filmed by a trail camera in July, in the Cyclops Mountains, Papua Indonesia, during an expedition led by Oxford University researchers.

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