{"id":94201,"date":"2026-05-30T04:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-hidden-treasure-of-rare-snake-specimens\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T04:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T04:27:13","slug":"a-hidden-treasure-of-rare-snake-specimens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/a-hidden-treasure-of-rare-snake-specimens\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hidden Treasure of Rare Snake Specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/29\/science\/snake-collector-mera-ecuador.html\">NYT > Science<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the foothills of the Ecuadorean Amazon, a 101-year-old farmer and a young scientist turned an amateur collection into a scientific survey of one of the most diverse snake habitats on Earth. NYT > Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2358,5862,4441,29339,3256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}