{"id":87286,"date":"2019-02-01T03:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/mutant-coyotes-in-california-with-piercing-blue-eyes-stun-scientists"},"modified":"2019-02-01T03:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T11:02:39","slug":"mutant-coyotes-in-california-with-piercing-blue-eyes-stun-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/mutant-coyotes-in-california-with-piercing-blue-eyes-stun-scientists","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mutant\u2019 coyotes in California with piercing blue eyes stun scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mutant-coyotes-in-california-with-piercing-blue-eyes-stun-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/wild-nature\" target=\"_blank\">wildlife<\/a> photographer spotted a \u201cone in a million\u201d coyote with captivating blue eyes while out on a walk in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a>\u2019s Point Reyes National Seashore.<\/p>\n<p>The sighting quickly became national news and <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/06\/coyotes-animals-eyes-genetics\/\" target=\"_blank\">prompted an investigation<\/a> by National Geographic, which confirmed the coyote\u2019s eye color was indeed rare \u2014 as coyotes\u2019 irises are almost always some shade of gold. At the time, Juan Negro, a senior researcher at the Spanish Council for Research in Spain, told the publication he hadn\u2019t seen something like that in the 25 years he\u2019d been studying animal coloration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeviants, or strange colors, arise from time to time as mutants,\u201d Negro suggested back in June.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/mutant-coyotes-in-california-with-piercing-blue-eyes-stun-scientists\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/mutant-coyotes-in-california...scientists<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, a wildlife photographer spotted a \u201cone in a million\u201d coyote with captivating blue eyes while out on a walk in California\u2019s Point Reyes National Seashore. The sighting quickly became national news and prompted an investigation by National Geographic, which confirmed the coyote\u2019s eye color was indeed rare \u2014 as coyotes\u2019 irises are almost [\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-87286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87286","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=87286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}