{"id":110668,"date":"2020-07-30T21:03:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-revive-100-million-year-old-lifeforms"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:03:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T04:03:01","slug":"scientists-revive-100-million-year-old-lifeforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/scientists-revive-100-million-year-old-lifeforms","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Lifeforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-revive-100-million-year-old-lifeforms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>It\u2019s Alive!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUCai1MHHNg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s technically possible that younger, more modern bacteria could have seeped down into the clay, <em>Ars Technica <\/em>reports, but the scientists think it was too densely packed to allow that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we found was that life extends all the way from the seafloor to the underlying rocky basement,\u201d University of Rhode Island oceanographer and study co-author Steven D\u2019Hondt said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fUCai1MHHNg\">an accompanying video<\/a>. \u201cAnd what [lead author Yuki Morono\u2019s] paper now shows is that those organisms are not only alive in the deepest form of sediment, but they\u2019re capable of growing and dividing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Alive! It\u2019s technically possible that younger, more modern bacteria could have seeped down into the clay, Ars Technica reports, but the scientists think it was too densely packed to allow that. \u201cWhat we found was that life extends all the way from the seafloor to the underlying rocky basement,\u201d University of Rhode Island oceanographer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}