{"id":128783,"date":"2021-10-09T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T23:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/researchers-uncover-a-previously-unknown-mass-extinction-event-in-africa"},"modified":"2021-10-09T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T23:23:11","slug":"researchers-uncover-a-previously-unknown-mass-extinction-event-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/researchers-uncover-a-previously-unknown-mass-extinction-event-in-africa","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover a previously unknown mass extinction event in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-a-previously-unknown-mass-extinction-event-in-africa3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sixty-three percent. That\u2019s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth\u2019s climate shifted from swampy to icy. But we are only finding out about it now. \u2014 HeritageDaily \u2014 Archaeology News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-three percent. That\u2019s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth\u2019s climate shifted from swampy to icy. But we are only finding out about it now. \u2014 HeritageDaily \u2014 Archaeology News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128783","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=128783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}