{"id":122644,"date":"2021-05-16T13:22:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-clues-to-ancient-life-from-billion-year-old-lake-fossils"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:22:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T20:22:44","slug":"new-clues-to-ancient-life-from-billion-year-old-lake-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/new-clues-to-ancient-life-from-billion-year-old-lake-fossils","title":{"rendered":"New clues to ancient life from billion-year-old lake fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-clues-to-ancient-life-from-billion-year-old-lake-fossils.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We think of earthly life as evolving from the sea. But newly discovered microscopic \u201cball\u201d fossils \u2014 found in ancient lake sediments in Scotland \u2014 suggest that evolution from single-celled to multicellular organisms might have occurred in lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We think of earthly life as evolving from the sea. But newly discovered microscopic \u201cball\u201d fossils \u2014 found in ancient lake sediments in Scotland \u2014 suggest that evolution from single-celled to multicellular organisms might have occurred in lakes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122644","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}