What's 30 years compared to 5.5M :)

That's because the title was made up by the poster and not the original.

> the title was made up by the poster

And it's a linkbait and should be fixed by the mods.

Also on BBC September last year:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150904-the-bizarre-beasts-l...

That's the same link

The OP probably saw this posted in the TIL subreddit. This article is 9 months old, posted on reddit 12 hours ago, posted on HN 7 hours ago.