9, 2023 A scientific expedition to a treacherous mountain range on the island of New Guinea has collected the first-ever photographic evidence confirming the survival of a bizarre, egg-laying mammal.... The only prior scientific record of the species was a specimen collected in 1961.... “ So it is really valuable to understand that it still occurs in the Cyclops Mountains, ” said Kristofer Helgen, a mammalogist and director of the Australian Museum Research Institute who wasn’t involved in the