{"id":242054,"date":"2026-08-02T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/70millionyearold-mammal-fossil-discovered-in-mongolia-rewrites-the-story-of-early-mammal-evolution"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:05:17","slug":"70millionyearold-mammal-fossil-discovered-in-mongolia-rewrites-the-story-of-early-mammal-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/70millionyearold-mammal-fossil-discovered-in-mongolia-rewrites-the-story-of-early-mammal-evolution","title":{"rendered":"70millionyearold mammal fossil discovered in Mongolia rewrites the story of early mammal evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/70millionyearold-mammal-fossil-discovered-in-mongolia-rewrites-the-story-of-early-mammal-evolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fossil record has a habit of reshaping ideas that once seemed settled. In the Late Cretaceous, long before the extinction of the dinosaurs, small mammals occupied a world dominated by much larger reptiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossil record has a habit of reshaping ideas that once seemed settled. In the Late Cretaceous, long before the extinction of the dinosaurs, small mammals occupied a world dominated by much larger reptiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242054","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}