{"id":858446,"date":"2025-06-27T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/two-species-of-parasitic-fungi-found-in-99-million-year-old-amber\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T23:12:15","slug":"two-species-of-parasitic-fungi-found-in-99-million-year-old-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/two-species-of-parasitic-fungi-found-in-99-million-year-old-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Species of Parasitic Fungi Found in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature These fossil fungi from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber are from the same family as the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which has gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the popular post-apocalyptic video game and TV series, The Last of Us.<br \/>\nThe post Two Species of Parasitic Fungi Found in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/paleoophiocordyceps-fungi-14025.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Lawanda Damron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature These fossil fungi from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber are from the same family as the zombie-ant fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which has gained widespread recognition as the inspiration behind the popular post-apocalyptic video game and TV series, The Last of Us. The post Two Species of Parasitic Fungi Found in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber appeared first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37015,536,22921],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-858446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-parasitic","8":"category-science-nature","9":"category-species"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858446","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=858446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}