{"id":133680,"date":"2025-07-30T04:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133680"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:39:15","slug":"ancient-lamp-shells-practised-social-distancing-fossil-find-in-china-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133680","title":{"rendered":"Ancient \u2018lamp shells\u2019 practised social distancing, fossil find in China reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAncient \u201clamp shells\u201d \u2013 bottom-dwelling invertebrates that once ruled the oceans \u2013 may have used hundreds of bristle-like structures to \u201csocial distance\u201d in a bid to improve their chances of survival, Chinese palaeontologists have discovered.<br \/>\nTheir findings are based on a fossilised species of brachiopods \u2013 or clam-like marine animals \u2013 that was discovered in China\u2019s southwestern Guizhou province.<br \/>\nThe fossils, discovered embedded in rocks, were found to be arranged in a \u201ccheckerboard-like\u201d&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3319870\/china-fossil-find-reveals-why-ancient-marine-lamp-shells-practised-social-distancing?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostAncient \u201clamp shells\u201d \u2013 bottom-dwelling invertebrates that once ruled the oceans \u2013 may have used hundreds of bristle-like structures to \u201csocial distance\u201d in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}