{"id":122519,"date":"2021-05-12T12:23:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/living-fossil-rediscovered-after-273-million-years"},"modified":"2021-05-12T12:23:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T19:23:12","slug":"living-fossil-rediscovered-after-273-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/living-fossil-rediscovered-after-273-million-years","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living fossil\u2019 rediscovered after 273 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-fossil-rediscovered-after-273-million-years2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This marine marriage has been going strong for 273 million years.<\/p>\n<p>Paleontologists have rediscovered a symbiotic relationship between two deep-sea animals that were previously thought to have disappeared from fossil record hundreds of millions of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The ancient pair identified in a new report \u2014 published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \u2014 are two types of non-skeletal coral and crinoid, or sea lilies, an animal whose cousins in the phylum Echinodermata include starfish and sea urchins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This marine marriage has been going strong for 273 million years. Paleontologists have rediscovered a symbiotic relationship between two deep-sea animals that were previously thought to have disappeared from fossil record hundreds of millions of years ago. The ancient pair identified in a new report \u2014 published in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology \u2014 are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122519","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}