RAWRR.
It might not always be in the picture, but it will occasionally walk by. It's magnificent wings and drilling horn make quite a dangerous combination.
What are the interesting features and facts about your new animal?
Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is named in honour of Sir David Attenborough, the British broadcaster and naturalist. Long-beaked echidnas belong to an extremely unusual group of egg-laying mammals which numbers just five species. The ancestors of echidnas and their closest living relative, the duck-billed platypus, diverged from all other mammals more than 100 million years before Tyrannosaurus rex first appeared on the planet. The smallest and most threatened of the three long-beaked echidna species, Attenborough's echidna is known from a single individual collected in 1961. It was believed extinct until its rediscovery in 2007. It is known only from the Cyclops Mountains of Papua (Indonesian New Guinea) and is considered a tasty treat by hunters lucky enough to find one.
This camel is probably the ancestor of all domestic two-humped camels. It is superbly adapted to life in the harsh Gobi Desert, one of the most hostile and fragile regions on the planet. The species can withstand drought, food shortages and even radiation from nuclear weapons testing. It is the only land mammal that can drink salt water with no apparent ill effects. Fewer than 1,000 individuals survive today in only four locations. Classified as Critically Endangered, these animals continue to be threatened by hunting, habitat loss, and competition for resources with introduced camels.
This endangered dolphin is the sole survivor of a once diverse group of dolphins that occurred across the world's oceans millions of years ago. They are extremely unusual looking with a needle-thin beak and tiny eyes that lack lenses. They swim on their sides and upside down and, being virtually blind, use finger-like projections on their fins to find food along the bottom of the rivers in which they live. Following the extinction of the Yangtze River dolphin, the Ganges River dolphin is now the most threatened freshwater cetacean species.