{"id":27151,"date":"2021-07-22T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/recent-footage-of-the-exceptionally-rare-glass-octopus#id30210"},"modified":"2021-07-22T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:01:00","slug":"only-its-optic-nerve-eyes-and-digestive-tract-are-visible-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/only-its-optic-nerve-eyes-and-digestive-tract-are-visible-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Only its optic nerve, eyes, and digestive tract are visible to humans.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/575856093?app_id=122963&#038;wmode=transparent\" width=\"890\" height=\"501\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Glass Octopus Encounter \/ Schmidt Ocean Institute\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Recent footage of the exceptionally rare glass octopus, spotted in the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago, north of Samoa.<\/p>\n<p><em>During the expedition, scientists made two rare sightings of a glass octopus, a nearly transparent species whose only visible features are its optic nerve, eyeballs and digestive tract. Before this expedition, there has been limited live footage of the glass octopus, forcing scientists to learn about the animal by studying specimens found in the gut contents of predators.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2021\/07\/glass-octopus\/\">Colossal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/recent-footage-of-the-exceptionally-rare-glass-octopus\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Recent footage of the exceptionally rare glass octopus, spotted in the remote Phoenix Islands Archipelago, north of Samoa.<\/p>\n<p>During the expedition, scientists made two rare sightings of a glass octopus, a nearly transparent sp&#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-27151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151","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=27151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27152,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27151\/revisions\/27152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}