{"id":905032,"date":"2026-05-11T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/elephant-skin-rocks-uncover-ancient-deep-sea-life-mirage-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:12:28","slug":"elephant-skin-rocks-uncover-ancient-deep-sea-life-mirage-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/elephant-skin-rocks-uncover-ancient-deep-sea-life-mirage-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Skin Rocks Uncover Ancient Deep-Sea Life | Mirage News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking across a hillside in Morocco when something unusual caught her eye. A slab of sedimentary rock was covered in a wrinkled texture that looked strikingly like elephant skin. The pattern was so unexpected that it immediately stood out. &#8220;I looked at the wrinkles and I was like, &#8216;These<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miragenews.com\/elephant-skin-rocks-uncover-ancient-deep-sea-1650154\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Mirage News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, geologist Rowan Martindale was hiking across a hillside in Morocco when something unusual caught her eye. A slab of sedimentary rock was covered in a wrinkled texture that looked strikingly like elephant skin. The pattern was so unexpected that it immediately stood out. &#8220;I looked at the wrinkles and I was like, &#8216;These<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":905033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27697,2918,192],"tags":[12916,11552],"class_list":{"0":"post-905032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-elephant","8":"category-rocks","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-elephant","11":"tag-rocks"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905032","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=905032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}