{"id":244256,"date":"2026-09-19T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/drowned-at-the-end-of-the-ice-age-the-flooded-abyss-longer-than-the-grand-canyon-and-teeming-with-hundreds-of-creatures-from-mammals-to-reptiles"},"modified":"2026-09-19T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T18:04:10","slug":"drowned-at-the-end-of-the-ice-age-the-flooded-abyss-longer-than-the-grand-canyon-and-teeming-with-hundreds-of-creatures-from-mammals-to-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/drowned-at-the-end-of-the-ice-age-the-flooded-abyss-longer-than-the-grand-canyon-and-teeming-with-hundreds-of-creatures-from-mammals-to-reptiles","title":{"rendered":"Drowned at the end of the Ice Age: The flooded abyss longer than the Grand Canyon and teeming with hundreds of creatures, from mammals to reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drowned-at-the-end-of-the-ice-age-the-flooded-abyss-longer-than-the-grand-canyon-and-teeming-with-hundreds-of-creatures-from-mammals-to-reptiles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sistema Ox Bel Ha near Tulum, Mexico, is currently the world\u2019s longest explored underwater cave system. It is network of tight passages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sistema Ox Bel Ha near Tulum, Mexico, is currently the world\u2019s longest explored underwater cave system. It is network of tight passages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244256","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=244256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}