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Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost species of mammal described as having the spines of a hedgehog ... Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, named after British naturalist David Attenborough ...

The echidna was dead and “fully intact” with “all its spines and its legs” when it was regurgitated by the three-meter-long (almost 10-foot) shark, according to Lubitz. He said it is ...

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, which of course bears no resemblance to its namesake, has "the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater and the feet of a mole," said the biologist.

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Lubitz said the dead echidna was whole when it was regurgitated ... in Australia and New Guinea — are egg-laying mammals, have spines protruding from their bodies and use a beak-like snout ...