{"id":135489,"date":"2022-02-12T01:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/for-the-first-time-ever-evidence-of-ancient-life-was-discovered-inside-a-ruby"},"modified":"2022-02-12T01:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T09:00:28","slug":"for-the-first-time-ever-evidence-of-ancient-life-was-discovered-inside-a-ruby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/for-the-first-time-ever-evidence-of-ancient-life-was-discovered-inside-a-ruby","title":{"rendered":"For The First Time Ever, Evidence of Ancient Life Was Discovered Inside a Ruby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/for-the-first-time-ever-evidence-of-ancient-life-was-discovered-inside-a-ruby2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2021<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A ruby that formed in Earth\u2019s crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the planet\u2019s mud.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped within the precious stone, geologists have identified residue of a form of pure carbon called graphite that, they say, is most likely biological in origin, the remains of some ancient microorganism from the time before multicellular life emerged on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe graphite inside this ruby is really unique. It\u2019s the first time we\u2019ve seen evidence of ancient life in ruby-bearing rocks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/uwaterloo.ca\/news\/media\/some-worlds-oldest-rubies-linked-early-life\">said geologist Chris Yakymchuk<\/a> of the University of Waterloo in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2021 A ruby that formed in Earth\u2019s crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the planet\u2019s mud. Trapped within the precious stone, geologists have identified residue of a form of pure carbon called graphite that, they say, is most likely biological in origin, the remains of some ancient [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489","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=135489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}