{"id":170168,"date":"2023-08-21T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/240-million-year-old-giant-amphibian-discovered-in-retaining-wall"},"modified":"2023-08-21T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:32:57","slug":"240-million-year-old-giant-amphibian-discovered-in-retaining-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/240-million-year-old-giant-amphibian-discovered-in-retaining-wall","title":{"rendered":"240-Million-Year-Old Giant Amphibian Discovered in Retaining Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/240-million-year-old-giant-amphibian-discovered-in-retaining-wall.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O.o!!! The longevity of this complex organism could reveal new avenues for immortality.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A 240-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian was found in a retaining wall in the 1990s. This significant find has now been formally named and described by scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) and the Australian Museum.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil was originally discovered by a retired chicken farmer in rocks from a local quarry. These rocks were intended for use in constructing a garden retaining wall, and the fossil was subsequently donated to the Australian Museum in Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O.o!!! The longevity of this complex organism could reveal new avenues for immortality. Arenaerpeton supinatus was discovered in rocks cut from a nearby quarry that were intended for the building of a garden wall. A 240-million-year-old fossil of an amphibian was found in a retaining wall in the 1990s. This significant find has now been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170168","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=170168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}