{"id":181284,"date":"2024-01-24T12:27:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/traces-of-ancient-life-reveal-a-3-4-billion-year-old-ecosystem"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:27:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T18:27:18","slug":"traces-of-ancient-life-reveal-a-3-4-billion-year-old-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/traces-of-ancient-life-reveal-a-3-4-billion-year-old-ecosystem","title":{"rendered":"Traces of ancient life reveal a 3.4-billion-year-old ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/traces-of-ancient-life-reveal-a-3-4-billion-year-old-ecosystem2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemical analysis of rocks found in South Africa shows that ancient microorganisms sustained themselves in a variety of ways, adding to evidence for an early origin of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/author\/michael-marshall\/\" class=\"\">Michael Marshall<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical analysis of rocks found in South Africa shows that ancient microorganisms sustained themselves in a variety of ways, adding to evidence for an early origin of life on Earth. By Michael Marshall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181284","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}