{"id":85837,"date":"2018-12-14T15:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-discover-new-bizarre-eel-like-creature-in-florida"},"modified":"2018-12-14T15:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:42:24","slug":"scientists-discover-new-bizarre-eel-like-creature-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/scientists-discover-new-bizarre-eel-like-creature-in-florida","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover New, Bizarre Eel-Like Creature in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-bizarre-eel-like-creature-in-florida2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florida residents, you have a new neighbor \u2014 and it has the body of an eel and the spots of a leopard. It also has two small arms with gills sticking out of its body, and lives in the swamps of the Panhandle.<\/p>\n<p>The creature is actually a new species of legless salamander or siren. It is being officially called <em>Siren reticulata<\/em>, or the Reticulated Siren, and its discovery was <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0207460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in the journal PLOS One<\/a> journal last week.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say the two-foot-long Reticulated Siren is among the largest species discovered in the United States in over 100 years.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/scientists-discover-new-bizarre-eel-like-creature-in-florida-1766079\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/scientists-discover-new-bizarre-ee...a-1766079\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida residents, you have a new neighbor \u2014 and it has the body of an eel and the spots of a leopard. It also has two small arms with gills sticking out of its body, and lives in the swamps of the Panhandle. The creature is actually a new species of legless salamander or siren. [\u2026]<\/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-85837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85837","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=85837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}