Scientists captured images of an elusive echidna named after the British biologist Sir David Attenborough for the first time in over 60 years. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna was last recorded ...

Of the four echidna species three have long beaks ... eye it's not dissimilar to a squashed hedgehog because when it was first gathered by Dutch botanist Pieter van Royen it wasn't stuffed.

The echidna genome sequence provided here helps ... and the intriguing question of how and why this complicated system originated in the first place, is still subject to ongoing research, but ...