{"id":115640,"date":"2020-11-09T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/two-new-species-of-marsupials-discovered-in-australia"},"modified":"2020-11-09T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T13:24:09","slug":"two-new-species-of-marsupials-discovered-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/two-new-species-of-marsupials-discovered-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Two new species of marsupials discovered in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/two-new-species-of-marsupials-discovered-in-australia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have identified two new mammals in the Land Down Under \u2014 both cousins of the doe-eyed flying marsupials known as greater gliders, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>A study published in Nature\u2019s Scientific Reports journal found two new distinct and smaller species of gliders in northern and central Australia, outside of the marsupial\u2019s known habitat in the country\u2019s southern end, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/australia-s-biodiversity-just-got-a-lot-richer-two-new-mammals-discovered-20201106-p56c77.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAustralia\u2019s biodiversity just got a lot richer,\u201d Andrew Krockenberger, a professor at James Cook University and a co-author of the study, told the outlet. \u201cIt\u2019s not every day that new mammals are confirmed, let alone two new mammals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian researchers have identified two new mammals in the Land Down Under \u2014 both cousins of the doe-eyed flying marsupials known as greater gliders, according to a report. A study published in Nature\u2019s Scientific Reports journal found two new distinct and smaller species of gliders in northern and central Australia, outside of the marsupial\u2019s known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}