{"id":101717,"date":"2025-12-10T08:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/101717\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T08:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:24:10","slug":"nyupptackt-termitart-har-samma-huvud-som-en-kaskelot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/101717\/","title":{"rendered":"Nyuppt\u00e4ckt termitart har samma huvud som en kaskelot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Termitens huvud \u00e4r f\u00f6rvillande likt kaskelotens huvud \u2013 v\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta tandval och det tredje st\u00f6rsta djuret p\u00e5 planeten.<\/p>\n<p>Kaskeloten \u00e4r k\u00e4nd fr\u00e5n Herman Melvilles klassiska ber\u00e4ttelse om Moby Dick. Och den n\u00e4stan makabra likheten \u2013 trots valens tio miljarder g\u00e5nger st\u00f6rre vikt \u2013 inspirerade omedelbart termitens nya namn: Cryptotermes mobydicki.<\/p>\n<p>Forskarna beskriver sitt <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3897\/zookeys.1258.166021\" class=\"hover:font-bold\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fynd<\/a> i tidskriften ZooKeys.<\/p>\n<p>Anv\u00e4nder huvudet till att h\u00e5lla fiender borta<\/p>\n<p>Den nyuppt\u00e4ckta termiten \u00e4r s\u00e5 s\u00e4rpr\u00e4glad att forskarna var s\u00e4kra p\u00e5 att de hade hittat en helt ny art.<\/p>\n<p>Sedd fr\u00e5n sidan liknar termitens framtr\u00e4dande panna och avl\u00e5nga huvud kaskelotens, och hos b\u00e5da organismerna \u00e4r d\u00f6ljs underk\u00e4ken n\u00e4stan helt av huvudet.<\/p>\n<p>Den n\u00e5got s\u00e4regna huvudformen \u00e4r inte bara visuellt anm\u00e4rkningsv\u00e4rd, den fyller \u00e4ven en viktig funktion i termitens f\u00f6rsvar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Termitens huvud \u00e4r f\u00f6rvillande likt kaskelotens huvud \u2013 v\u00e4rldens st\u00f6rsta tandval och det tredje st\u00f6rsta djuret p\u00e5 planeten.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[80,78,79,34,31,33,32,30,81,84,83,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-101717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vetenskap-och-teknik","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-science-and-technology","10":"tag-scienceandtechnology","11":"tag-se","12":"tag-svenska","13":"tag-sverige","14":"tag-sweden","15":"tag-swedish","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-teknik","18":"tag-vetenskap","19":"tag-vetenskapteknik"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@se\/115694316016849608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/se\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}