{"id":240711,"date":"2026-07-12T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/one-in-a-million-find-soft-tissue-discovered-in-450-million-year-old-fossil"},"modified":"2026-07-12T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T04:02:36","slug":"one-in-a-million-find-soft-tissue-discovered-in-450-million-year-old-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/one-in-a-million-find-soft-tissue-discovered-in-450-million-year-old-fossil","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne in a Million\u201d Find: Soft Tissue Discovered in 450-Million-Year-Old Fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-in-a-million-find-soft-tissue-discovered-in-450-million-year-old-fossil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth\u2019s earliest reef animals lived and evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rare 450-million-year-old fossil with preserved soft tissue is revealing how some of Earth\u2019s earliest reef animals lived and evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240711","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}