FOUND: The Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna (known in the local Tepera language as ‘payangko’) was one of our most wanted lost species. After being lost to science for over 60 years, a biodiversity training expedition team has rediscovered this toddling, nocturnal, egg-laying mammal in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. Congratulations to Indonesian NGO YAPPENDA and students from Cenderawasih University (UNCEN) for leading the rediscovery, and to Papua BBKSDA and the Indonesian National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) for their support. The expedition team captured the first-ever photos and video of the Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna on remote trail cameras. The expedition deployed 80 trail cameras and climbed more than 36,000 feet into the rugged mountains. The team spent four weeks in the forest before seeing the echidna. Attenborough’s Long-beaked Echidna is classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and is one of five species of monotr...