{"id":169810,"date":"2023-08-16T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/living-asteroid-new-super-deep-sea-star"},"modified":"2023-08-16T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T20:23:22","slug":"living-asteroid-new-super-deep-sea-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/living-asteroid-new-super-deep-sea-star","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiving asteroid\u201d new, super-deep sea star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-asteroid-new-super-deep-sea-star3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A \u201cliving asteroid\u201d \u2013 or sea star \u2013 is lurking off the coast of southern Australia, in waters 3,850 metres deep.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the deepest known occurrence of a sea star in the continent\u2019s waters, and also a brand-new species.<\/p>\n<p>The sea star, dubbed <em>Poraniomorpha tartarus<\/em>, was collected in a <a href=\"https:\/\/museumsvictoria.com.au\/media-releases\/museums-victoria-leads-world-first-research-voyage-to-uncover-life-in-australias-eastern-abyss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2017 ocean expedition<\/a> led by the Museums Victoria Research Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u201cliving asteroid\u201d \u2013 or sea star \u2013 is lurking off the coast of southern Australia, in waters 3,850 metres deep. It\u2019s the deepest known occurrence of a sea star in the continent\u2019s waters, and also a brand-new species. The sea star, dubbed Poraniomorpha tartarus, was collected in a 2017 ocean expedition led by the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169810","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=169810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}