{"id":720553,"date":"2022-04-06T14:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720553"},"modified":"2022-04-06T14:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T18:00:06","slug":"floridas-state-shell-at-higher-risk-of-extinction-than-previously-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720553","title":{"rendered":"Florida&#039;s state shell at higher risk of extinction than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida horse conch population\u2014one of the world&#8217;s largest invertebrate animals\u2014is shrinking. Established in 1969 as the Florida state shell with a record length of two feet, it has become symbolic of Florida&#8217;s natural resources and widely used in advertising for the state&#8217;s tourism industry. But unregulated commercial harvesting and recreational live collection are pushing populations closer to collapse.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-04-florida-state-shell-higher-extinction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Florida&#8217;s state shell at higher risk of extinction than previously thought<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida horse conch population\u2014one of the world&#8217;s largest invertebrate animals\u2014is shrinking. Established in 1969 as the Florida state shell with a record length of two feet, it has become&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720553","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720553\/revisions"}],"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=720553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}