{"id":237239,"date":"2026-05-15T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-weird-sea-creature-may-have-rewritten-lifes-genetic-rulebook"},"modified":"2026-05-15T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:19:55","slug":"this-weird-sea-creature-may-have-rewritten-lifes-genetic-rulebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/this-weird-sea-creature-may-have-rewritten-lifes-genetic-rulebook","title":{"rendered":"This Weird Sea Creature May Have Rewritten Life\u2019s Genetic Rulebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-weird-sea-creature-may-have-rewritten-lifes-genetic-rulebook3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-distance gene control first emerged around 650 to 700 million years ago, significantly earlier than scientists had previously believed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237239","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=237239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}