{"id":217450,"date":"2025-07-09T10:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ancient-bone-eating-worms-ate-mosasaur-ichthyosaur-and-plesiosaur-skeletons"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:05:15","slug":"ancient-bone-eating-worms-ate-mosasaur-ichthyosaur-and-plesiosaur-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/ancient-bone-eating-worms-ate-mosasaur-ichthyosaur-and-plesiosaur-skeletons","title":{"rendered":"Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ancient-bone-eating-worms-ate-mosasaur-ichthyosaur-and-plesiosaur-skeletons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized invertebrates that feast on the fats and proteins locked inside their skeletons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized invertebrates that feast on the fats and proteins locked inside their skeletons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217450","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}