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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Kalum Carter

"Separated from the rest of the mammal tree-of-life about 200 million years ago.” — Lost for 60 years, and found by a trail camera!

Trail cam of an echidna.

The Attenborough long-beaked echidna was thought to have been extinct, as no one has seen one alive for over 60 years. A trail camera solved that!

Deep in the Cyclops Mountains, Indonesia, a team of scientists were on a biological expedition throughout the mountain range when on the last day of the four-week expedition they found the remarkable footage of a creature not seen in over 60 years – Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna.

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