{"id":22473,"date":"2020-10-01T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/the-alligator-lizards-odd-mating-behavior-requires-a-special-muscle-fiber#id27981"},"modified":"2020-10-01T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:41:00","slug":"the-alligator-lizards-odd-mating-behavior-a-long-clamp-requires-a-special-muscle-fiber-rarely-seen-in-the-animal-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/the-alligator-lizards-odd-mating-behavior-a-long-clamp-requires-a-special-muscle-fiber-rarely-seen-in-the-animal-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The alligator lizard&#8217;s odd mating behavior\u2014a long clamp\u2014requires a special muscle fiber rarely seen in the animal kingdom."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/images\/made\/images\/content\/cards\/merlin_177570603_d5a39ad7-323a-40aa-9ec3-fa16f1b72898-superJumbo_890_544_80.jpg\" \/><figcaption>\n<p>          The alligator lizard&#8217;s odd mating behavior\u2014a long clamp\u2014requires a special muscle fiber rarely seen in the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/29\/science\/lizard-sex-jaws.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/the-alligator-lizards-odd-mating-behavior-requires-a-special-muscle-fiber\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>          The alligator lizard&#8217;s odd mating behavior\u2014a long clamp\u2014requires a special muscle fiber rarely seen in the animal kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>    &#x21A9;&#xFE0E; The New &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22474,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22473\/revisions\/22474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}