{"id":240190,"date":"2026-07-02T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-were-puzzled-for-years-by-mysterious-seafloor-crop-circles"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T23:58:00","slug":"scientists-were-puzzled-for-years-by-mysterious-seafloor-crop-circles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/scientists-were-puzzled-for-years-by-mysterious-seafloor-crop-circles","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Were Puzzled for Years by Mysterious Seafloor \u2018Crop Circles\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZ2gdfLguys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Divers discovered strange geometric formations on the ocean floor in 1995. It took until 2011 to find the tiny, poisonous architect behind them\u2014and we\u2019re still unraveling why it builds them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Divers discovered strange geometric formations on the ocean floor in 1995. It took until 2011 to find the tiny, poisonous architect behind them\u2014and we\u2019re still unraveling why it builds them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240190","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}