Aha! They spotted it!
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A trail camera got a picture of Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna in Indonesia. (Expedition Cyclops/Handout via Reuters) -
Do you see the dirt on this long-beaked echidna’s nose? It pokes the ground for snacks! (Enguerrand Blanchy) -
Do you see why this creature is named the long-beaked echidna? (Klaus Rudloff) -
Echidna babies are called puggles. (University of Queensland and Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary)
It has spines like a hedgehog. It has a nose like an anteater. It has feet like a mole. It is a kind of echidna (ih-KID-nuh). No one saw it for years.
People found one at last!
Pray: Thank God that He knows and cares for all the creatures He makes.
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Scientists from Oxford University in England went on a four-week trip last summer. They explored the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia. They set up 80 trail cameras. On the last day, they gasped at one picture. It was Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna! It has been over 60 years since anyone recorded the shy creature. Echidnas live in burrows. They come out mostly at night. Their babies are called puggles. Males have small spurs on their hind legs. Echidnas and platypuses are the only mammals that lay eggs.
“All that moves in the field is mine.” (Psalm 50:11)
