{"id":372,"date":"2011-06-27T23:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T23:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/?p=372"},"modified":"2011-06-29T05:00:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T05:00:06","slug":"biological-gems-from-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/?p=372","title":{"rendered":"Biological gems from the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/06\/ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-374\" title=\"ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full\" src=\"http:\/\/tech-no.104.210.61.21.xip.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/06\/ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full-255x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/06\/ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full-255x300.jpg 255w, https:\/\/tech-no.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/06\/ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full-127x150.jpg 127w, https:\/\/tech-no.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/06\/ss-110624-species-Myrianida-worm.ss_full.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>Apparently new species of life are showing up in the Philippine Archipelago. According to Terrence Gosliner, \u201cThe Philippines is one of the hottest of the hotspots for diverse and  threatened life on Earth,\u201d Terrence Gosliner is the dean of science and  research collections at the California Academy of Sciences and leader of  the 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition.\u00a0  \u201cDespite this designation, however, the biodiversity here is still  relatively unknown, and we found new species during nearly every dive  and hike as we surveyed the country\u2019s reefs, rain forests, and the ocean  floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the suspected new species are dozens of types of insects and  spiders, deep-sea corals, sea pens, sea urchins and more than 50 kinds  of sea slugs.\u00a0Scientists say they came across a\u00a0new kind of cicada that  makes a distinctive &#8220;laughing&#8221; call, a starfish that eats only sunken  driftwood, and a deep-sea swell shark that sucks water into its stomach  to bulk up and scare off predators.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story here: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/06\/110624130023.htm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/06\/110624130023.htm\">http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/06\/110624130023.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Enjoy the pictures of some of the discoveries:<\/h3>\n<p>[imagebrowser id=3]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently new species of life are showing up in the Philippine Archipelago. According to Terrence Gosliner, \u201cThe Philippines is one of the hottest of the hotspots for diverse and threatened life on Earth,\u201d Terrence Gosliner is the dean of science and research collections at the California Academy of Sciences and leader of the 2011 Philippine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[19,17,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tech-no.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}