{"id":149642,"date":"2022-11-07T15:26:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/550-million-year-old-fossils-just-solved-a-centuries-old-skeleton-mystery"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:26:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T21:26:13","slug":"550-million-year-old-fossils-just-solved-a-centuries-old-skeleton-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/550-million-year-old-fossils-just-solved-a-centuries-old-skeleton-mystery","title":{"rendered":"550-million-year-old Fossils Just Solved a Centuries-Old \u2018Skeleton\u2019 Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/550-million-year-old-fossils-just-solved-a-centuries-old-skeleton-mystery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Determining the appearance of the earliest creatures to develop skeletons was impossible \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have resolved a centuries-old mystery by determining the appearance of the earliest animals to create skeletons \u2014 thanks to an extremely well-preserved collection of fossils found in eastern Yunnan Province, China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis really is a one-in-million discovery\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Luke parry and guangxu zhang\/xiaodong wang.<\/p>\n<p>The discoveries were recently published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and complete a crucial gap in our understanding of Earth\u2019s evolutionary history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Determining the appearance of the earliest creatures to develop skeletons was impossible \u2014 until now. Scientists have resolved a centuries-old mystery by determining the appearance of the earliest animals to create skeletons \u2014 thanks to an extremely well-preserved collection of fossils found in eastern Yunnan Province, China. \u201cThis really is a one-in-million discovery\u201d Luke parry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149642","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}