{"id":180305,"date":"2024-01-11T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/rare-skin-fossil-is-oldest-by-130-million-years"},"modified":"2024-01-11T17:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T23:23:25","slug":"rare-skin-fossil-is-oldest-by-130-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/rare-skin-fossil-is-oldest-by-130-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Rare skin fossil is oldest by 130 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-skin-fossil-is-oldest-by-130-million-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>The fragment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/10\/world\/largest-ape-gigantopithecus-blacki-extinction-scn\/index.html\">fossilized<\/a> reptile skin was found in a limestone cave in Oklahoma, United States, and is at least 130 million years older than the oldest previously known skin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/01\/06\/world\/first-dinosaur-discovery-science-newsletter-wt-scn\/index.html\">fossil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of Toronto Mississauga identified a skin fragment with a pebbled surface which is similar to crocodile skin, according to a press release published Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s oldest known fossilized skin belonged to a species of reptile that lived before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a new study has found. The fragment of fossilized reptile skin was found in a limestone cave in Oklahoma, United States, and is at least 130 million years older than the oldest previously known skin fossil. [\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-180305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180305","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=180305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}