Incredible photo shows elusive wild beast posing for trail cam in Pennsylvania centuries after it was eliminated: 'Needle in a haystack'

An elusive creature known for its ferocious hunting skills has been caught on camera during a rare sighting in Pennsylvania. The forest-dwelling mammal, known as a fisher, was eliminated in Pennsylvania due to unregulated hunting and massive deforestation in the late 19th century Bill Powers, founder the wildlife streaming service, PixCams, recently posted the footage of a fisher, describing the sighting as 'like Christmas morning' Powers described finding the footage as 'like Christmas morning'. At the time of the uncommon sighting, spotted by livestreaming wildlife cameras, the fisher had only been seen in areas 2 to 3 hours away Surprisingly, fishers are not named for their fishing skills, as the omnivorous member of the weasel family does not typically eat fish, but instead was named for its similar characteristics to the European polecat, or 'fitch' Fishers use scent to locate prey and are renowned for their remarkable ability to stalk porcupines - and is one of only a few mammals to do so. Powers, whose aim is to help people connect with nature through his live-streamed wildlife recordings, described the sighting as 'super rare, kind of like finding a needle in a haystack'. Powers, whose aim is to help people connect with nature through his live-streamed wildlife recordings, described the recent sighting as 'super rare, kind of like finding a needle in a haystack'.