{"id":232829,"date":"2026-03-08T22:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-shocked-to-find-two-hidden-species-for-every-one-we-know"},"modified":"2026-03-08T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:07:10","slug":"scientists-shocked-to-find-two-hidden-species-for-every-one-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/scientists-shocked-to-find-two-hidden-species-for-every-one-we-know","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Shocked to Find Two Hidden Species for Every One We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-shocked-to-find-two-hidden-species-for-every-one-we-know.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, mammal, reptile, or amphibian, there may be two additional \u201ccryptic\u201d species that look almost identica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists may have been dramatically undercounting the number of vertebrate species on Earth. A large analysis of more than 300 studies suggests that for every recognized species of fish, bird, mammal, reptile, or amphibian, there may be two additional \u201ccryptic\u201d species that look almost identica<\/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-232829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232829","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=232829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}