Echidnas, also called spiny anteaters, are some of the weirdest mammals in the world. They're among the only mammals that don't give birth to live babies, and they also carry their young in a pouch.

For more than 60 years, researchers have been unable to physically see a critically endangered animal known as one of the world's most unusual mammals. But now, one of Attenborough's long-beaked ...

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