{"id":588452,"date":"2019-03-07T10:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0bd84fc8cf825c7ab7051f9e260d1301"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:50:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T14:50:01","slug":"why-extinct-species-seem-to-be-returning-from-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=588452","title":{"rendered":"Why extinct species seem to be returning from the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like something out of a zombie movie, species that were once thought extinct seem to be rising from the dead. Between February 21 and March 4 2019, three notable rediscoveries were announced \u2013 the Fernandina Island Gal\u00e1pagos tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus), which was last seen in 1906; Wallace&#8217;s giant bee (Megachile pluto), which had supposedly disappeared in 1980; and the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura), which disappeared after the last sighting in 1983 and was officially declared extinct in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like something out of a zombie movie, species that were once thought extinct seem to be rising from the dead. Between February 21 and March 4 2019, three notable rediscoveries were announced &ndash; the Fernandina Island Gal&aacute;pagos tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus), which was last seen in 1906; Wallace&#8217;s giant bee (Megachile pluto), which had supposedly disappeared in 1980; and the Formosan clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa brachyura), which disappeared after the last sighting in 1983 and was officially declared extinct in 2013.<\/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-588452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588452","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=588452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588453,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588452\/revisions\/588453"}],"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=588452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}