{"id":8246,"date":"2009-09-03T13:18:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=8246"},"modified":"2009-08-31T08:46:53","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:46:53","slug":"new-critter-eyeless-venomous-and-fanged-found-in-the-%e2%80%98tunnel-to-atlantis%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/new-critter-eyeless-venomous-and-fanged-found-in-the-%e2%80%98tunnel-to-atlantis%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"New Critter: Eyeless, Venomous, and Fanged. Found in the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTunnel to Atlantis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remipedia_gerade.jpg\" alt=\"remipedia_gerade\" title=\"remipedia_gerade\" width=\"500\" height=\"382\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remipedia_gerade.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/remipedia_gerade-392x300.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tunnel_de_la_Atlantida\" class=\"external external_icon\">Tunnel de la Atlantida<\/a>(tunnel to Atlantis) aka the world&#8217;s largest submarine lava tube. Whilst looking for a previous critter found in the cave 25 years earlier, scientists found an entirely different thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some animals were much more active in swimming around than others in the small sample bottles,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said marine biologist Tom Iliffe of Texas A&#038;M University at Galveston, who was part of the team that discovered the new species. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153On closer examination, and subsequently with DNA testing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/08\/newcrustacean\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">we confirmed that they were actually two different specie<\/a>s.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Their findings appear this month in a special edition of <em>Marine Biodiversity<\/em>. The new crustacean has been named <em>Speleonectes atlantida<\/em>, which means \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cave swimmer of Atlantis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very apt name, Iliffe said, because the creature is a very active swimmer, gliding through the water an undulating fashion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/08\/newcrustacean\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">Wired<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/slantsmcgee\/statuses\/3661798148\" class=\"external external_icon\">slantsmcgee<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found in the Tunnel de la Atlantida(tunnel to Atlantis) aka the world&#8217;s largest submarine lava tube. Whilst looking for a previous critter found in the cave 25 years earlier, scientists found an entirely different thing. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Some animals were much more active in swimming around than others in the small sample bottles,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said marine biologist Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,9],"tags":[1463,627,1087,1464,464,116,1465,463,1466],"class_list":["post-8246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-science","tag-tunnel-to-atlantis","tag-briney-deep","tag-live-for-science-die-for-science","tag-new-critter","tag-possible-left-over-old-one","tag-proof-of-evolution","tag-speleonectes-atlantida","tag-terror-from-the-sea","tag-theyd-make-great-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}