{"id":216935,"date":"2025-07-01T06:19:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/analysis-provides-day-by-day-insight-into-prehistoric-planktons-capacity-for-change"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:19:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:19:39","slug":"analysis-provides-day-by-day-insight-into-prehistoric-planktons-capacity-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/analysis-provides-day-by-day-insight-into-prehistoric-planktons-capacity-for-change","title":{"rendered":"Analysis provides day-by-day insight into prehistoric plankton\u2019s capacity for change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/analysis-provides-day-by-day-insight-into-prehistoric-planktons-capacity-for-change.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-day basis for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The research, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2421549122\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>,<\/i> could improve our understanding of how character traits driven by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/environmental+changes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">environmental changes<\/a> shaped evolutionary history and life on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>It could help scientists to understand how much of a species\u2019 evolutionary journey is down to \u201cnature vs. nurture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of analyzing fossils, allowing them to see how creatures from millions of years ago were shaped by their environment on a day-to-day basis for the first time. The research, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could improve our understanding of how [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216935","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}