{"id":475633,"date":"2018-05-16T03:20:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T07:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=333d1cdd4307cd18c264965c5d43d5df"},"modified":"2018-05-16T03:20:23","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T07:20:23","slug":"worm-eating-mice-reveal-how-evolution-works-on-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=475633","title":{"rendered":"Worm-eating mice reveal how evolution works on islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a bunch of kangaroo species, Madagascar has multiple species of lemurs, the Galapagos Islands have boulder-sized tortoises\u2014islands get lots of cool animals. That&#8217;s because when animals are isolated on islands, they can evolve into strange new species found nowhere else on Earth. But what&#8217;s the cut-off\u2014how small can an island be and still support the evolution of multiple new species from a single common ancestor? A team of mammalogists just discovered that four species of mice evolved from one common ancestor on Connecticut-sized Mindoro Island in the Philippines, making it the smallest known island where one kind of mammal has branched out into many more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia has a bunch of kangaroo species, Madagascar has multiple species of lemurs, the Galapagos Islands have boulder-sized tortoises&mdash;islands get lots of cool animals. That&#8217;s because when animals are isolated on islands, they can evolve into strange new species found nowhere else on Earth. But what&#8217;s the cut-off&mdash;how small can an island be and still support the evolution of multiple new species from a single common ancestor? A team of mammalogists just discovered that four species of mice evolved from one common ancestor on Connecticut-sized Mindoro Island in the Philippines, making it the smallest known island where one kind of mammal has branched out into many more.<\/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-475633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475633","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=475633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475634,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475633\/revisions\/475634"}],"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=475633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=475633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=475633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}