Attenborough's long-beaked echidna

As recently reported in the New Zealand Herald and other papers, the Attenborough's long-beaked echidna - a primitive mammal and one of the few that lays eggs - is not extinct as many had feared.

But scientists were not all that delighted by the report from the villager in Papua New Guinea that saw the extremely rare echidna:

"It was delicious," he said.