{"id":177654,"date":"2023-12-07T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-million-year-old-fossil-groundwater-pool-discovered-deep-beneath-sicilian-mountains"},"modified":"2023-12-07T14:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T20:23:49","slug":"6-million-year-old-fossil-groundwater-pool-discovered-deep-beneath-sicilian-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-million-year-old-fossil-groundwater-pool-discovered-deep-beneath-sicilian-mountains","title":{"rendered":"6 million-year-old \u2018fossil groundwater pool\u2019 discovered deep beneath Sicilian mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-million-year-old-fossil-groundwater-pool-discovered-deep-beneath-sicilian-mountains3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A large pocket of fresh water that was sucked down into Earth\u2019s crust 6 million years ago is still buried deep below a mountain range in Sicily, new research has found.<\/p>\n<p>The fresh water likely became trapped underground during the Messinian salinity crisis, when the Mediterranean Sea dried up following a global cooling event that locked ocean water up in ice sheets and glaciers. This event likely exposed the seabed to rainwater that then trickled down into Earth\u2019s crust, according to a study published Nov. 22 in the journal Communications Earth &amp; Environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large pocket of fresh water that was sucked down into Earth\u2019s crust 6 million years ago is still buried deep below a mountain range in Sicily, new research has found. The fresh water likely became trapped underground during the Messinian salinity crisis, when the Mediterranean Sea dried up following a global cooling event that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177654","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}