{"id":202344,"date":"2024-12-24T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T01:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/newly-identified-scorpion-species-spits-venom-to-defend-itself"},"modified":"2024-12-24T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T01:03:59","slug":"newly-identified-scorpion-species-spits-venom-to-defend-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/newly-identified-scorpion-species-spits-venom-to-defend-itself","title":{"rendered":"Newly identified scorpion species \u2018spits\u2019 venom to defend itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-identified-scorpion-species-spits-venom-to-defend-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A scorpion discovered in South America can spray venom out of its stinger and hit targets up to 35 centimetres away.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/michael-le-page\/\" class=\"\">Michael Le Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scorpion discovered in South America can spray venom out of its stinger and hit targets up to 35 centimetres away. By Michael Le Page<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202344","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=202344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}