{"id":157188,"date":"2023-02-07T09:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/oldest-brain-in-a-backboned-animal-found-in-fish-fossil"},"modified":"2023-02-07T09:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:22:47","slug":"oldest-brain-in-a-backboned-animal-found-in-fish-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/oldest-brain-in-a-backboned-animal-found-in-fish-fossil","title":{"rendered":"Oldest brain in a backboned animal found in fish fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oldest-brain-in-a-backboned-animal-found-in-fish-fossil2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very old brain, some ancient philosophy maybe\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A fossilised fish originally dug up more than a century ago in an English coal mine has been shown to hold the world\u2019s oldest brain in a vertebrate animal.<\/p>\n<p>CT scans revealed the new internal features including a brain and cranial nerves about 2 centimetres long.<\/p>\n<p>Soft tissue such as internal organs decay very quickly and very rarely fossilise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very old brain, some ancient philosophy maybe\u2026 A fossilised fish originally dug up more than a century ago in an English coal mine has been shown to hold the world\u2019s oldest brain in a vertebrate animal. CT scans revealed the new internal features including a brain and cranial nerves about 2 centimetres long. Soft tissue [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157188","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\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}