{"id":226120,"date":"2025-11-29T04:19:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/newly-discovered-organism-could-represent-a-whole-new-branch-in-the-tree-of-life"},"modified":"2025-11-29T04:19:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T10:19:22","slug":"newly-discovered-organism-could-represent-a-whole-new-branch-in-the-tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/newly-discovered-organism-could-represent-a-whole-new-branch-in-the-tree-of-life","title":{"rendered":"Newly Discovered Organism Could Represent a Whole New Branch in The Tree of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newly-discovered-organism-could-represent-a-whole-new-branch-in-the-tree-of-life.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years.<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered hiding in a lab sample of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-single-celled-animal-can-make-complex-decisions-even-without-a-nervous-system\">marine ciliates<\/a> scientists had been tending to since collecting them from Croatian waters in 2011. But it wasn\u2019t until the ciliates suddenly died that this new, tiny creature, which scientists have named <em>Solarion arienae, <\/em> came into view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis organism allows us to look into a very ancient chapter of cellular evolution that we previously could reconstruct only indirectly,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/natur.cuni.cz\/en\/news\/9383-discovery-of-a-rare-protist-reveals-a-previously-unknown-branch-of-the-eukaryotic-tree-of-life\">say<\/a> protistologists Ivan \u010cepi\u010dka and Marek Valt, from Charles University in the Czech Republic, lead authors of the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses for years. It was discovered hiding in a lab sample of marine ciliates scientists had been tending to since collecting them from Croatian waters in 2011. But it wasn\u2019t until the ciliates suddenly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226120","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=226120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}