{"id":215295,"date":"2025-06-03T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/earths-oldest-living-creature-unearthed-dating-back-700-million-years"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T18:14:21","slug":"earths-oldest-living-creature-unearthed-dating-back-700-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/earths-oldest-living-creature-unearthed-dating-back-700-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s oldest living creature unearthed\u2014dating back 700 million years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-oldest-living-creature-unearthed-dating-back-700-million-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology\u2019s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For over a century, scientists have wrestled with one of biology\u2019s most fundamental mysteries: how the first animals evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215295","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=215295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}