{"id":182913,"date":"2024-02-17T01:38:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bizarre-alien-faced-multi-legged-forest-dwellers-discovered-in-remote-african-jungle"},"modified":"2024-02-17T01:38:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T07:38:19","slug":"bizarre-alien-faced-multi-legged-forest-dwellers-discovered-in-remote-african-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bizarre-alien-faced-multi-legged-forest-dwellers-discovered-in-remote-african-jungle","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre \u201cAlien-Faced\u201d Multi-Legged Forest Dwellers Discovered in Remote African Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bizarre-alien-faced-multi-legged-forest-dwellers-discovered-in-remote-african-jungle3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers have uncovered a new genus and five new species of millipedes in remote African jungles \u2013 and say the many-legged creatures could hold important clues to whether woody vines are choking or protecting the world\u2019s forests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Andy Marshall said they found the millipedes \u2013 with heads that look somewhat like Star Wars characters \u2013 among forest litter and loose soil while researching tree and vine growth in the Tanzania\u2019s remote Udzungwa Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>The new genus and species were officially described recently in the <em>European Journal of Taxonomy<\/em> in a paper titled \u201cA mountain of millipedes,\u201d with six international collaborators including lead author Professor Henrik Enghoff of the University of Copenhagen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have uncovered a new genus and five new species of millipedes in remote African jungles \u2013 and say the many-legged creatures could hold important clues to whether woody vines are choking or protecting the world\u2019s forests. University of the Sunshine Coast Professor Andy Marshall said they found the millipedes \u2013 with heads that look [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182913","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}