{"id":202550,"date":"2024-12-27T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tiny-fossilized-embryos-reveal-stunning-details-of-life-half-a-billion-years-ago"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T18:15:00","slug":"tiny-fossilized-embryos-reveal-stunning-details-of-life-half-a-billion-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/tiny-fossilized-embryos-reveal-stunning-details-of-life-half-a-billion-years-ago","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Fossilized Embryos Reveal Stunning Details of Life Half a Billion Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-fossilized-embryos-reveal-stunning-details-of-life-half-a-billion-years-ago3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny balls of mineral are opening a new window into the history of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>These millimeter-sized objects are more than half a billion years old \u2013 the fossilized embryos of animals that lived during the early Cambrian period, some 535 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They belong to a group called<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ecdysozoa\"> Ecdysozoa<\/a>, which includes insects, spiders, crustaceans, and worms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny balls of mineral are opening a new window into the history of life on Earth. These millimeter-sized objects are more than half a billion years old \u2013 the fossilized embryos of animals that lived during the early Cambrian period, some 535 million years ago. They belong to a group called Ecdysozoa, which includes insects, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202550","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}