{"id":420514,"date":"2017-12-21T07:57:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a6c6816cf33b875571300af2efa30599"},"modified":"2017-12-21T07:57:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T11:57:09","slug":"new-snake-species-hiding-in-plain-sight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=420514","title":{"rendered":"New snake species hiding in plain sight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel McDowell, the late herpetologist and professor at Rutgers-Newark, spent a good part of his life studying ground snakes in New Guinea. Forty years later, Sara Ruane \u2013 who joined the Department of Biological Sciences faculty last semester  \u2013 was able to find evidence that the snakes McDowell studied were, in fact, a new species of reptiles that have been hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel McDowell, the late herpetologist and professor at Rutgers-Newark, spent a good part of his life studying ground snakes in New Guinea. Forty years later, Sara Ruane &ndash; who joined the Department of Biological Sciences faculty last semester  &ndash; was able to find evidence that the snakes McDowell studied were, in fact, a new species of reptiles that have been hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=420514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420515,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420514\/revisions\/420515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}