{"id":187115,"date":"2024-04-10T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/discovery-of-unusual-worm-with-mammal-like-vision-stuns-scientists"},"modified":"2024-04-10T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T21:24:03","slug":"discovery-of-unusual-worm-with-mammal-like-vision-stuns-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/discovery-of-unusual-worm-with-mammal-like-vision-stuns-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of Unusual Worm With Mammal-Like Vision Stuns Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/discovery-of-unusual-worm-with-mammal-like-vision-stuns-scientists3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Lund University are amazed by the discovery of a bristle worm that possesses eyesight as acute as that of mammals. They suspect that they may have a secretive language, only seen by their own species.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Vanadis<\/em> bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones \u2013 relatively speaking. Indeed, if our eyes were proportionally as big as the ones of this Mediterranean marine worm, we would need a big sturdy wheelbarrow and brawny arms to lug around the extra 100kg.<\/p>\n<p>As a set, the worm\u2019s eyes weigh about twenty times as much as the rest of the animal\u2019s head and seem grotesquely out of place on this tiny and transparent marine critter. As if two giant, shiny red balloons have been strapped to its body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Lund University are amazed by the discovery of a bristle worm that possesses eyesight as acute as that of mammals. They suspect that they may have a secretive language, only seen by their own species. The Vanadis bristle worm has eyes as big as millstones \u2013 relatively speaking. [\u2026]<\/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-187115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187115","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=187115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}