{"id":223353,"date":"2025-10-14T03:29:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-discover-the-secret-to-this-bizarre-creatures-extraordinarily-long-life"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:29:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:29:39","slug":"scientists-discover-the-secret-to-this-bizarre-creatures-extraordinarily-long-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/scientists-discover-the-secret-to-this-bizarre-creatures-extraordinarily-long-life","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Discover the Secret to This Bizarre Creature\u2019s Extraordinarily Long Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-the-secret-to-this-bizarre-creatures-extraordinarily-long-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few tiny molecular tweaks may explain why naked mole-rats live nearly ten times longer than similar species. Researchers believe the key to the naked mole-rat\u2019s remarkable lifespan may come down to small but significant differences in just four amino acids. A recent study found that evolutionar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few tiny molecular tweaks may explain why naked mole-rats live nearly ten times longer than similar species. Researchers believe the key to the naked mole-rat\u2019s remarkable lifespan may come down to small but significant differences in just four amino acids. A recent study found that evolutionar<\/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-223353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223353","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=223353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}