{"id":213326,"date":"2025-05-06T05:12:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hidden-for-40000-years-scientists-discover-odd-new-butterfly-species"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:12:55","slug":"hidden-for-40000-years-scientists-discover-odd-new-butterfly-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/hidden-for-40000-years-scientists-discover-odd-new-butterfly-species","title":{"rendered":"Hidden for 40,000 Years: Scientists Discover \u201cOdd\u201d New Butterfly Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hidden-for-40000-years-scientists-discover-odd-new-butterfly-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits and faces conservation risks due to low genetic diversity. In Canada\u2019s Rocky Mountains, a modest yet remarkable butterfly has gone largely unnoticed by science for years. W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new butterfly species, Satyrium curiosolus, has been discovered in Alberta. Isolated for millennia, it shows unique traits and faces conservation risks due to low genetic diversity. In Canada\u2019s Rocky Mountains, a modest yet remarkable butterfly has gone largely unnoticed by science for years. W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213326","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=213326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}