Deep within the impenetrable, cloud-shrouded peaks of the Cyclops Mountains in Indonesian Papua, a scientific team battled extreme humidity, venomous snakes, and treacherous terrain. For four grueling weeks, the researchers scaled vertical moss-covered cliffs, desperate for a glimpse of a creature lost to science for over six decades. On the very last day of the expedition, as hope dwindled, a single trail camera captured a few seconds of footage that would rewrite conservation history. The camera revealed a bizarre, nocturnal creature shuffling through the damp leaf litter of the forest floor. With the spines of a hedgehog, the snout of an anteater, and the feet of a mole, the animal was unmistakable to the ecstatic researchers. It was Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, an elusive, egg-laying mammal that had not been officially recorded by scientists since a single specimen was collected in 1961. ...