{"id":4676,"date":"2022-05-25T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:46:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:46:12","slug":"three-eyed-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg_animals\/three-eyed-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-eyed Lizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes two eyes just aren\u2019t enough. Thankfully the Tuatara, a lizard that lives on a few remote islands near New Zealand, has an extra one. The Tuatara has a third eye on the top of its head. We aren\u2019t certain what it is used for but we do know that it gets covered by scales as the lizard grows up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4537\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4537\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4537\" title=\"tuatura_lizard_flickr_credit_boboD90\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuatura_lizard_flickr_credit_boboD90.jpg\" alt=\"tuatura lizard\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuatura_lizard_flickr_credit_boboD90.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuatura_lizard_flickr_credit_boboD90-632x420.jpg 632w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/tuatura_lizard_flickr_credit_boboD90-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flickr credit: boboD90<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes two eyes just aren\u2019t enough. Thankfully the Tuatara, a lizard that lives on a few remote islands near New Zealand, has an extra one. The Tuatara has a third eye on the top of its head. We aren\u2019t certain what it is used for but we do know that it gets covered by scales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,13,409],"tags":[147,77,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-4676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg_animals","9":"category-omg-facts","10":"tag-eyesight","11":"tag-lizard","12":"tag-new-zealand"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595747,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions\/595747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}