{"id":42825,"date":"2022-03-24T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/24\/wolverine-fish-with-secret-spikes-is-one-of-212-new-freshwater-species-found-aoe"},"modified":"2022-03-24T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T09:00:53","slug":"wolverine-fish-and-blind-eel-among-212-new-freshwater-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42825","title":{"rendered":"Wolverine fish and blind eel among 212 new freshwater species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Report from Shoal on 2021\u2019s newly described species shows \u2018there are still hundreds and hundreds more freshwater fish scientists don\u2019t know about yet\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Scientists are celebrating 212 \u201cnew\u201d freshwater fish species, including a blind eel found in the grounds of a school for blind children and a fish named Wolverine that is armed with a hidden weapons system.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/shoalconservation.org\/new-species-reports\/\">New Species 2021 report<\/a>, released by the conservation organisation Shoal, shows just how diverse and remarkable the world\u2019s often undervalued freshwater species are, and suggests there is plenty more life still to be discovered in the world\u2019s lakes, rivers and wetlands.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/mar\/24\/wolverine-fish-with-secret-spikes-is-one-of-212-new-freshwater-species-found-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report from Shoal on 2021\u2019s newly described species shows \u2018there are still hundreds and hundreds more freshwater fish scientists don\u2019t know about yet\u2019Scientists are celebrating 212 \u201cnew\u201d freshwater fish species, including a blind eel found in the groun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,973,918,456,65,2002,59,62,88,454,82,972,299,61,42,1590],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-biodiversity","category-biology","category-conservation","category-environment","category-fish","category-global-development","category-india","category-japan","category-mumbai","category-myanmar","category-rivers","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news","category-zoology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42826,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42825\/revisions\/42826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}