{"id":208040,"date":"2025-03-07T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/patagonian-living-rocks-trace-their-origins-to-the-beginning-of-life-on-earth"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T17:18:58","slug":"patagonian-living-rocks-trace-their-origins-to-the-beginning-of-life-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/patagonian-living-rocks-trace-their-origins-to-the-beginning-of-life-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Patagonian \u2018living rocks\u2019 trace their origins to the beginning of life on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/patagonian-living-rocks-trace-their-origins-to-the-beginning-of-life-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the Patagonia region of southern Chile, there are \u201cliving rocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While that\u2019s what the locals say, Veronica Godoy-Carter, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at Northeastern University, says it\u2019s a little more complicated than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re actually little mountains,\u201d she says, of \u201cgiant biofilms that are billions of years old. Literally billions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Patagonia region of southern Chile, there are \u201cliving rocks.\u201d While that\u2019s what the locals say, Veronica Godoy-Carter, associate professor of biology and biochemistry at Northeastern University, says it\u2019s a little more complicated than that. \u201cThey\u2019re actually little mountains,\u201d she says, of \u201cgiant biofilms that are billions of years old. Literally billions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208040","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=208040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}