{"id":846990,"date":"2025-05-09T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/paleontologists-solve-mystery-of-spine-covered-cambrian-fossil\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T21:12:10","slug":"paleontologists-solve-mystery-of-spine-covered-cambrian-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/paleontologists-solve-mystery-of-spine-covered-cambrian-fossil\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Spine-Covered Cambrian Fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata &#8212; a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China\u2019s Yunnan province &#8212; is in fact a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known as chancelloriids.<br \/>\nThe post Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Spine-Covered Cambrian Fossil appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/shishania-aculeata-13892.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>News Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata &#8212; a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China\u2019s Yunnan province &#8212; is in fact a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known as chancelloriids. The post Paleontologists Solve Mystery of Spine-Covered Cambrian Fossil appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;Read MoreNews Staff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":846991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33056,536,29667],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-846990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paleontologists","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-solve"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}