{"id":530,"date":"2010-01-05T17:34:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T00:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astroblastro.com\/?p=530"},"modified":"2010-01-05T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T22:13:41","slug":"the-changing-morphology-of-new-mexican-lizards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/?p=530","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Morphology of New Mexican Lizards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Tisher sent me this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/science\/05oblizard.html?ref=science\">article<\/a>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kvncsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/popup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-531\" title=\"Hey Whitey\" src=\"http:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/popup-170x170.jpg\" alt=\"Hey Whitey\" width=\"170\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/popup-170x170.jpg 170w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/popup-440x440.jpg 440w, https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/popup.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>White Lizards Evolve in New Mexico Dunes<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erica Bree Rosenblum&#8217;s focus has been on three lizard species that elsewhere are dark skinned but in White Sands have each evolved a white-skinned variety that makes them hard to find. \u201cIt\u2019s really obvious what\u2019s happened,\u201d Dr. Rosenblum said. \u201cEverybody got white so that they could better escape from their predators.\u201d It\u2019s a great example of convergent evolution, of species independently acquiring the same traits.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/05\/science\/05oblizard.html?ref=science\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Tisher sent me this article: White Lizards Evolve in New Mexico Dunes Erica Bree Rosenblum&#8217;s focus has been on three lizard species that elsewhere are dark skinned but in White Sands have each evolved a white-skinned variety that makes them hard to find. \u201cIt\u2019s really obvious what\u2019s happened,\u201d Dr. Rosenblum said. \u201cEverybody got white&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[7,52,10,50,51,53],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-animals","tag-evolution","tag-links","tag-lizards","tag-new-mexico","tag-nyt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astroblastro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}