Expedition Cyclops In a patch of forest toward the top ... Worldwide, there are more than 2,000 “lost species” of plants and animals that have not been scientifically recorded for over a ...

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is the flagship animal of the Cyclops Mountains and a symbol of its extraordinary biodiversity. The team hope that its rediscovery will help bring attention to ...

as the only evidence of the mammal that existed was a decades-old "museum specimen of a dead animal," according to the BBC. The summer expedition to the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesian New Guinea ...

They have lived on the northern slopes of the Cyclops Mountains for eighteen generations ... from the typical seaside habitat for these animals,” entomologist Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou ...

The Cyclops Mountains are precipitously steep and ... You're being scratched and cut. There are venomous animals around you, deadly snakes like the death adder," Dr Kempton explains.

For the researchers of Expedition Cyclops, Attenborough’s long-beaked ... suspecting it was around because of holes in the ground the animal digs to forage for worms. In the last images on ...

The animal in question is considered both "bizarre" and "iconic" by the University of Oxford, one of the partners who led the expedition to Indonesia's Cyclops Mountains, where it was found.

A rare species of echidna named after broadcaster David Attenborough has been rediscovered by scientists on mountains in Indonesia, more than 60 years after it was last officially seen. Known as ...

The animal is the second off-spring to be produced ... a similar creature was born to the amazement of villagers in India. The 'cyclops' calf was hailed as a miracle from God by those who flocked ...