{"id":923722,"date":"2026-07-31T01:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/520-million-year-old-fossil-from-china-fills-gap-in-evolutionary-history-of-cephalopods\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T01:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T06:13:24","slug":"520-million-year-old-fossil-from-china-fills-gap-in-evolutionary-history-of-cephalopods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/520-million-year-old-fossil-from-china-fills-gap-in-evolutionary-history-of-cephalopods\/","title":{"rendered":"520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle &#8212; a tubular extension of the mantle found in shelled cephalopods &#8212; pushing back the fossil record of this key evolutionary feature to the Early Cambrian, roughly 520 million years ago.<br \/>\nThe post 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History of Cephalopods appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/paleontology\/eoceras-shaanxiense-14958.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Laine Klemp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature Paleontologists have identified the earliest-known cephalopod equipped with a siphuncle &#8212; a tubular extension of the mantle found in shelled cephalopods &#8212; pushing back the fossil record of this key evolutionary feature to the Early Cambrian, roughly 520 million years ago. The post 520-Million-Year-Old Fossil from China Fills Gap in Evolutionary History [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25191,25184,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fossil","category-million-year-old","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923722","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=923722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}