JAKARTA Researchers have credited a strong spirit of collaboration for the success of an expedition in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains that uncovered new sightings of a rare egg-laying mammal and multiple unidentified species. The highlight of the recently published findings was camera-trap images of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi), which, like the distantly related but […]
Actually, the People in the Indonesian Highlands Knew It Was There All Along, but the Only Specimen Known to the West Was a Dead One in a Museum From 1961
An international team rediscovered the rare Attenborough's long-beaked echidna in Indonesia, also uncovering new species and a cave system. These findings, achieved with local community collaboration, contribute significantly to biodiversity and geological research. A long-beaked echidna named
More than sixty years after its last recorded sighting, the iconic Attenborough's long-beaked echidna has been rediscovered in the remote Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia's Papua Province. This egg-laying mammal, named after Sir David Attenborough, was captured on camera during an expedition led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Indonesian partners. The discovery was…