{"id":172115,"date":"2023-09-15T18:23:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mystery-of-living-fossil-tree-frozen-in-time-for-66-million-years-finally-solved"},"modified":"2023-09-15T18:23:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T23:23:10","slug":"mystery-of-living-fossil-tree-frozen-in-time-for-66-million-years-finally-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/mystery-of-living-fossil-tree-frozen-in-time-for-66-million-years-finally-solved","title":{"rendered":"Mystery of \u2018living fossil\u2019 tree frozen in time for 66 million years finally solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mystery-of-living-fossil-tree-frozen-in-time-for-66-million-years-finally-solved2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it\u2019s survived \u2014 almost unchanged \u2014 since the time of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wollemi pine was thought to have gone extinct 2 million years ago until it was rediscovered by a group of hikers in 1994. Now, scientists have decoded its genome to understand how it\u2019s survived \u2014 almost unchanged \u2014 since the time of the dinosaurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172115","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=172115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}