{"id":181650,"date":"2024-01-29T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/1-6-billion-year-old-fossils-push-back-origin-of-multicellular-life-by-tens-of-millions-of-years"},"modified":"2024-01-29T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-29T18:28:00","slug":"1-6-billion-year-old-fossils-push-back-origin-of-multicellular-life-by-tens-of-millions-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/1-6-billion-year-old-fossils-push-back-origin-of-multicellular-life-by-tens-of-millions-of-years","title":{"rendered":"1.6-billion-year-old Fossils Push Back Origin of Multicellular Life by Tens of Millions of Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1-6-billion-year-old-fossils-push-back-origin-of-multicellular-life-by-tens-of-millions-of-years3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The study shows that analyzing ancient organisms can help unravel the evolutionary history of life on Earth, Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPositively identifying any fossil over a billion years old is inherently challenging. For example, the oldest dinosaur fossils are only about 250 million years old, and the ones in this study are almost seven times older,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s why research such as this is exceptionally difficult, but highly rewarding, and when conclusions such as the ones in this study can be reached with high confidence, it represents a significant discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study shows that analyzing ancient organisms can help unravel the evolutionary history of life on Earth, Craig said. \u201cPositively identifying any fossil over a billion years old is inherently challenging. For example, the oldest dinosaur fossils are only about 250 million years old, and the ones in this study are almost seven times older,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181650","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=181650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}