{"id":309,"date":"2007-09-06T13:16:19","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T18:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/06\/alien-like-moray-eel-has-double-jaws\/"},"modified":"2007-09-06T13:16:19","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T18:16:19","slug":"alien-like-moray-eel-has-double-jaws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/alien-like-moray-eel-has-double-jaws\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien-like moray eel has double jaws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2007\/070903\/full\/070903-11.html'><img style='float: left; margin: 10px 10px 0 0;' src='http:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/070903-11.jpg' alt='Moray eel double jaws' \/><\/a>This week&#8217;s Nature has a <a href='http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/2007\/070903\/full\/070903-11.html'>report by researchers studying the moray eel<\/a>.  Seems they have found that the eels&#8217; have a second set of jaws (ala the alien in the movie <em>Alien<\/em>) that helps them to hold on to prey.  Unlike Alien, the 2nd set of jaws doesn&#8217;t pop out of the animal, but it does move forward to grab on to prey and help the eel swallow.  Neat!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Nature has a report by researchers studying the moray eel. Seems they have found that the eels&#8217; have a second set of jaws (ala the alien in the movie Alien) that helps them to hold on to prey. Unlike Alien, the 2nd set of jaws doesn&#8217;t pop out of the animal, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hoodedhawk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}