{"id":185950,"date":"2024-03-24T22:29:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/watch-a-snakelike-creature-feed-milk-to-its-young"},"modified":"2024-03-24T22:29:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T03:29:39","slug":"watch-a-snakelike-creature-feed-milk-to-its-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/watch-a-snakelike-creature-feed-milk-to-its-young","title":{"rendered":"Watch a snakelike creature feed \u2018milk\u2019 to its young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-a-snakelike-creature-feed-milk-to-its-young2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mammals aren\u2019t the only animals that nurse their young. Cockroaches, spiders, and some fish and birds feed their offspring a milklike liquid.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers have discovered the first amphibian that does so:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Caecilians are the first-known amphibians to engage in this form of parental care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammals aren\u2019t the only animals that nurse their young. Cockroaches, spiders, and some fish and birds feed their offspring a milklike liquid. Now, researchers have discovered the first amphibian that does so: Caecilians are the first-known amphibians to engage in this form of parental care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185950","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}