{"id":197593,"date":"2024-10-13T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/evolution-in-real-time-scientists-predict-and-witness-evolution-in-a-30-year-marine-snail-experiment"},"modified":"2024-10-13T11:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T16:06:04","slug":"evolution-in-real-time-scientists-predict-and-witness-evolution-in-a-30-year-marine-snail-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/evolution-in-real-time-scientists-predict-and-witness-evolution-in-a-30-year-marine-snail-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Evolution in real time: Scientists predict\u2014and witness\u2014evolution in a 30-year marine snail experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolution-in-real-time-scientists-predict-and-witness-evolution-in-a-30-year-marine-snail-experiment2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists\u2019 eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snails on a tiny rocky islet evolved before scientists\u2019 eyes. The marine snails were reintroduced after a toxic algal bloom wiped them out from the skerry. While the researchers intentionally brought in a distinct population of the same snail species, these evolved to strikingly resemble the population lost over 30 years prior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593","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=197593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}