{"id":192895,"date":"2024-07-13T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/gobsmacking-study-finds-life-on-earth-emerged-4-2-billion-years-ago"},"modified":"2024-07-13T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T14:25:17","slug":"gobsmacking-study-finds-life-on-earth-emerged-4-2-billion-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/gobsmacking-study-finds-life-on-earth-emerged-4-2-billion-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Gobsmacking Study Finds Life on Earth Emerged 4.2 Billion Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gobsmacking-study-finds-life-on-earth-emerged-4-2-billion-years-ago2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, Earth was barren. Everything changed when, somehow, out of the chemistry available early in our planet\u2019s history, something started squirming \u2013 processing available matter to survive, to breed, to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>What that something was, and when it first squirmed, have been burning questions that have puzzled humanity probably for as long as we\u2019ve been able to ask \u201cwhat am I?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study has found some answers \u2013 and life emerged surprisingly early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, Earth was barren. Everything changed when, somehow, out of the chemistry available early in our planet\u2019s history, something started squirming \u2013 processing available matter to survive, to breed, to thrive. What that something was, and when it first squirmed, have been burning questions that have puzzled humanity probably for as long [\u2026]<\/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-192895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192895","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=192895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}