Long-Beaked Echidna Specimen Suggests Egg-Laying Mammal Isn't Extinct In Australia After All Long-beaked echidna from New Guinea. A long-beaked echidna shot in 1901 was stuffed and eventually arrived at the Natural History Museum of London, where it was forgotten for a century. 01/05/2013 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/04/long-beaked-echidna-australia-extinct_n_2411707.html [with comments]