For 140 years, a ground-dwelling bird known to islanders as the Auwo vanished so completely that scientists began to wonder if it had ever truly existed. Then a camera trap on a remote Papua New Guinea island captured something that made a seasoned conservationist feel like he was staring at a mythical creature.
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