{"id":73082,"date":"2017-10-06T23:04:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/scientists-have-drilled-into-earths-hidden-8th-continent"},"modified":"2017-10-06T23:04:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T06:04:24","slug":"scientists-have-drilled-into-earths-hidden-8th-continent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/scientists-have-drilled-into-earths-hidden-8th-continent","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Drilled Into Earth\u2019s Hidden 8th Continent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-drilled-into-earths-hidden-8th-continent.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Northern Hemisphere summer, researchers spent two months collecting samples from a submerged landmass known as Zealandia.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we could gain new insight into everything from ancient life forms to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of millions of years ago, a landmass that\u2019s being referred to as Zealandia was largely submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean. This summer, a team of scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/lost-continent-rises-again-new-expedition-180965051\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">set out on an underwater expedition<\/a> using an advanced research vessel, and the results might yield brand-new insight into Earth\u2019s prehistory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-drilled-into-earth-s-hidden-8th-continent-zealandia\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-drilled-into-ear...-zealandia<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Northern Hemisphere summer, researchers spent two months collecting samples from a submerged landmass known as Zealandia. As a result, we could gain new insight into everything from ancient life forms to climate change. Tens of millions of years ago, a landmass that\u2019s being referred to as Zealandia was largely submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}