{"id":238398,"date":"2026-06-05T03:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/glowing-blue-spider-among-the-dozens-of-new-species-discovered-in-one-area-on-research-expedition"},"modified":"2026-06-05T03:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T08:33:23","slug":"glowing-blue-spider-among-the-dozens-of-new-species-discovered-in-one-area-on-research-expedition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/glowing-blue-spider-among-the-dozens-of-new-species-discovered-in-one-area-on-research-expedition","title":{"rendered":"Glowing Blue Spider Among the Dozens of New Species Discovered in One Area on Research Expedition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/glowing-blue-spider-among-the-dozens-of-new-species-discovered-in-one-area-on-research-expedition5.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A recent expedition to Central Africa has uncovered dozens of new species.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a team of 16 specialists from Africa and around the world visited the Lisima plateau in eastern Angola and conducted a biodiversity survey, through which they discovered dozens of species unknown to science, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/greatspineofafrica\/?hl=en\">The Wilderness Project<\/a>, which led the survey.<\/p>\n<p>The organization dedicated to studying and protecting Africa\u2019s freshwater wilderness announced the findings from the remote scientific expedition in the area \u2014 seen as one of Africa\u2019s last great biodiversity blank spots \u2014 in a news release obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday, June 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent expedition to Central Africa has uncovered dozens of new species. In February, a team of 16 specialists from Africa and around the world visited the Lisima plateau in eastern Angola and conducted a biodiversity survey, through which they discovered dozens of species unknown to science, according to The Wilderness Project, which led the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238398","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238398"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238401,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238398\/revisions\/238401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}