{"id":89979,"date":"2019-04-25T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-90-million-year-old-crab-chimera-is-a-beautiful-mess-of-an-animal"},"modified":"2019-04-25T18:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T01:06:21","slug":"this-90-million-year-old-crab-chimera-is-a-beautiful-mess-of-an-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/this-90-million-year-old-crab-chimera-is-a-beautiful-mess-of-an-animal","title":{"rendered":"This 90-Million-Year-Old Crab Chimera Is a Beautiful Mess of an Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-90-million-year-old-crab-chimera-is-a-beautiful-mess-of-an-animal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago \u2014 and behold, it could be the next Pixar character.<\/p>\n<p>The small, pocket-size crab, named <em>Callichimaera perplexa<\/em>, was different than its modern cousins.<\/p>\n<p>This crab sported a tiny lobster-esque shell, with legs flattened like oars, and huge Pound Puppies-style peepers that protruded from its head \u2014 a trait that indicates the creature used its eyes actively for whatever it did, researchers said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/weird-fossilised-crab-chimera-looks-like-something-straight-out-of-pixar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new species of crab that swam the seas 95 million years ago \u2014 and behold, it could be the next Pixar character. The small, pocket-size crab, named Callichimaera perplexa, was different than its modern cousins. This crab sported a tiny lobster-esque shell, with legs flattened like oars, and huge Pound Puppies-style [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89979","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=89979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}