{"id":206338,"date":"2025-02-13T03:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/yellowstones-super-hot-water-may-hold-the-secrets-of-earths-first-breath"},"modified":"2025-02-13T03:29:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T09:29:31","slug":"yellowstones-super-hot-water-may-hold-the-secrets-of-earths-first-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/yellowstones-super-hot-water-may-hold-the-secrets-of-earths-first-breath","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone\u2019s Super-Hot Water May Hold The Secrets of Earth\u2019s First Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/yellowstones-super-hot-water-may-hold-the-secrets-of-earths-first-breath.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microbial life in Yellowstone\u2019s Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life\u2019s exploitation of oxygen, according to a recent analysis by researchers from Montana State University.<\/p>\n<p>T he inhabitants of the basin\u2019s Octopus and Conch Springs live in kelp-like, gelatinous \u2018streamer\u2019 structures that wiggle furiously in superheated currents, which hover around 88 degrees Celsius (190 degrees Farenheit). Genetically similar to ancient bacteria and archaea, t heir existence is a window into the primordial soup from which life emerged.<\/p>\n<p>While these microbial communities share many traits, the springs\u2019 environments are different in a few fundamental ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microbial life in Yellowstone\u2019s Lower Geyser Basin may hold clues to the evolution of life\u2019s exploitation of oxygen, according to a recent analysis by researchers from Montana State University. T he inhabitants of the basin\u2019s Octopus and Conch Springs live in kelp-like, gelatinous \u2018streamer\u2019 structures that wiggle furiously in superheated currents, which hover around 88 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206338","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=206338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}