{"id":29663,"date":"2026-09-01T23:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/paleontologists-spent-20-years-dating-thousands-of-fossils-heres-what-they-found-13\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T23:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:52:50","slug":"paleontologists-spent-20-years-dating-thousands-of-fossils-heres-what-they-found-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/paleontologists-spent-20-years-dating-thousands-of-fossils-heres-what-they-found-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils \u2013 Here\u2019s What They Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/paleontologists-spent-20-years-dating-thousands-of-fossils-heres-what-they-found\/\" title=\"Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils \u2013 Here\u2019s What They Found\"><\/a>How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marine fossils can look like a snapshot of one ancient community even when the organisms preserved side by side actually lived hundreds or thousands of years apart. For [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How quickly sediment accumulates on the seafloor appears to be the key factor determining whether fossils from different time periods become mixed together. A single layer of marine fossils can look like a snapshot of one ancient community even when the organisms preserved side by side actually lived hundreds or thousands of years apart. For &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/01\/paleontologists-spent-20-years-dating-thousands-of-fossils-heres-what-they-found-13\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paleontologists Spent 20 Years Dating Thousands of Fossils \u2013 Here\u2019s What They Found&#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\/29663"}],"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=29663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}