{"id":366177,"date":"2025-12-23T20:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366177\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:30:08","slug":"four-millipede-species-discovered-in-great-smoky-mountains-national-park-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/366177\/","title":{"rendered":"Four millipede species discovered in Great Smoky Mountains National Park :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four species of millipedes were discovered in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook account for the park announced that four brand-new millipede species were discovered, made possible by the park&#8217;s ongoing\u00a0All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) and Discover Life in America (DLIA).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two species have only been found in a single location each, while the other two are more widespread across the park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a lot of legs added to the biodiversity list!&#8221; the post exclaimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are reportedly now 80 species of millipedes documented in the Smokies\u2014and counting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The national park shouted out scientists from Georgia College &amp; State University and Hampden-Sydney College for uncovering these tiny wonders.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four species of millipedes were discovered in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.\u00a0 The Facebook account for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[2975,179998,79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-366177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-good-news","9":"tag-great-smoky-mountains","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}