{"id":335,"date":"2009-12-17T13:32:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/?p=335"},"modified":"2012-11-25T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T01:53:02","slug":"dumontia-oregonensis-oregon-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/2009\/12\/dumontia-oregonensis-oregon-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"DUMONTIA OREGONENSIS: (OREGON, USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cryptopia.us\/site\/category\/monsters\/discovered-species\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-336\" title=\"discovered-species\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/discovered-species3.gif?resize=100%2C99\" alt=\"discovered-species\" width=\"100\" height=\"99\" \/><\/a>These &#8220;missing links&#8221; of water fleas were found lurking in three small, murky ponds wedged in Oregon&#8217;s Agate Desert.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Specimens of this creature were collected by naturalists and sat on a  laboratory shelf for five years before they were dissected and identified as a new species representing a family of completely unknown water fleas.<\/p>\n<p>University of Wisconsin professor of zoology, Stanley Dodson, on whose shelf the exciting find lay neglected for half a decade (and who described this new species in the scientific journal Hydrobiologia) had this to say about this astonishing discovery:  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One hundred years after we thought we had everything there was at the family level, along comes this animal&#8230; It is incredibly unlikely that you&#8217;re going to find anything new and different today because people have been out collecting these things in North America for more than a hundred years. That&#8217;s why this is a special animal.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.wisc.edu\/9452\" target=\"_\">read more &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These &#8220;missing links&#8221; of water fleas were discovered in three small, murky ponds wedged in Oregon&#8217;s Agate Desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2504,"featured_media":12331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[1116,1108,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-discovered-species","8":"category-monsters","9":"tag-discovered-species","10":"tag-monsters","11":"tag-new-animals"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Dumontia11.jpg?fit=1728%2C1521&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptopia.us\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}