{"id":139619,"date":"2022-05-20T00:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-discover-ghost-fossils-beneath-a-microscope"},"modified":"2022-05-20T00:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T05:02:40","slug":"scientists-discover-ghost-fossils-beneath-a-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-discover-ghost-fossils-beneath-a-microscope","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover \u2018ghost\u2019 fossils beneath a microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-ghost-fossils-beneath-a-microscope2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The unexpected discovery of \u201cghost\u201d fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Looking through a powerful microscope, researchers were stunned to see the impressions left by single-celled plankton, or fossilized nannoplankton, that lived millions of years ago \u2013 especially since they were analyzing something else.<\/p>\n<p>A study detailing the findings published Thursday in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.abm7330\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unexpected discovery of \u201cghost\u201d fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about how life reacts to climate change in Earth\u2019s oceans. Looking through a powerful microscope, researchers were stunned to see the impressions left by single-celled plankton, or fossilized nannoplankton, that lived millions of years ago \u2013 especially since they were analyzing [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139619","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=139619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}