{"id":171860,"date":"2023-09-12T10:24:43","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/407-million-year-old-bacteria-species-were-first-to-colonize-land"},"modified":"2023-09-12T10:24:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T15:24:43","slug":"407-million-year-old-bacteria-species-were-first-to-colonize-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/407-million-year-old-bacteria-species-were-first-to-colonize-land","title":{"rendered":"407-million-year-old Bacteria Species Were First to Colonize Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/407-million-year-old-bacteria-species-were-first-to-colonize-land2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists performed detailed 3D reconstructions of fossils discovered in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are the earliest known life forms on Earth. They are responsible for the Earth\u2019s transition from a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere to the present relatively oxygen-rich atmosphere due to oxygenic photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Ubiquitously found in ponds, lakes, water streams, rivers, and wetlands, they have played a significant role in shaping life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists performed detailed 3D reconstructions of fossils discovered in Scotland. Cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae, are the earliest known life forms on Earth. They are responsible for the Earth\u2019s transition from a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere to the present relatively oxygen-rich atmosphere due to oxygenic photosynthesis. Ubiquitously found in ponds, lakes, water streams, rivers, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171860","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=171860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}