{"id":30552,"date":"2016-09-27T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-species-of-ant-in-frog-vomit"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:12:51","slug":"scientists-just-discovered-a-new-species-of-ant-in-frog-vomit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-species-of-ant-in-frog-vomit","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just discovered a new species of ant \u2014 in frog vomit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-discovered-a-new-species-of-ant-in-frog-vomit.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lmao.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists working in Ecuador have discovered a new species of ant in the most unusual of places \u2013 the vomit of a bright orange \u2018devil frog\u2019 known as the <em>diablito<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So far, we don\u2019t know much about the new tropical ant, which hae elongated mouthparts (possibly to help catch food), and has been given the formal name <em>Lenomyrmex hoelldobleri,<\/em> in tribute to German biologist and ant expert <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bert_H%C3%B6lldobler\">Bert H\u00f6lldobler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes people think that our world is very well-explored,\u201d lead researcher Christian Rabeling from the University of Rochester told Jason Bittel at <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/09\/frogs-ants-vomits-new-species\/\"><em>National Geographic<\/em><\/a>. \u201cNothing could be farther from the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/frog-vomit-has-led-scientists-to-a-new-species-of-ant\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/frog-vomit-has-led-scientists-to...ies-of-ant<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lmao. Scientists working in Ecuador have discovered a new species of ant in the most unusual of places \u2013 the vomit of a bright orange \u2018devil frog\u2019 known as the diablito. So far, we don\u2019t know much about the new tropical ant, which hae elongated mouthparts (possibly to help catch food), and has been given [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30552","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66133,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30552\/revisions\/66133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}