{"id":26211,"date":"2026-04-11T15:58:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/scientists-baffled-by-bizarre-living-fossil-from-275-million-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T15:58:50","slug":"scientists-baffled-by-bizarre-living-fossil-from-275-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/scientists-baffled-by-bizarre-living-fossil-from-275-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Baffled by Bizarre \u201cLiving Fossil\u201d From 275 Million Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-baffled-by-bizarre-living-fossil-from-275-million-years-ago\/\" title=\"Scientists Baffled by Bizarre \u201cLiving Fossil\u201d From 275 Million Years Ago\"><\/a>Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This rare herbivorous \u201cliving fossil\u201d helps scientists better understand early evolution and ecosystems in Gondwana. In a dry riverbed in Brazil, deep within a forest near the Amazon, paleontologists uncovered a fossilized jawbone from an unknown ancient animal. [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanyka amnicola is a newly identified ancient tetrapod known from unusual twisted jawbones adapted for grinding plants. This rare herbivorous \u201cliving fossil\u201d helps scientists better understand early evolution and ecosystems in Gondwana. In a dry riverbed in Brazil, deep within a forest near the Amazon, paleontologists uncovered a fossilized jawbone from an unknown ancient animal. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/scientists-baffled-by-bizarre-living-fossil-from-275-million-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Baffled by Bizarre \u201cLiving Fossil\u201d From 275 Million Years Ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}