{"id":31079,"date":"2026-10-30T18:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/scientists-unlock-a-1000-year-old-mystery-buried-inside-ancient-melon-seeds\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T18:48:02","slug":"scientists-unlock-a-1000-year-old-mystery-buried-inside-ancient-melon-seeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/scientists-unlock-a-1000-year-old-mystery-buried-inside-ancient-melon-seeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Unlock a 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Buried Inside Ancient Melon Seeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-unlock-a-1000-year-old-mystery-buried-inside-ancient-melon-seeds\/\" title=\"Scientists Unlock a 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Buried Inside Ancient Melon Seeds\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"583\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Waterlogged-Melon-Seed-777x583.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Waterlogged Melon Seed\" \/><\/a>Ancient DNA recovered from melon seeds at a medieval Chinese port is revealing surprising clues about the fruit\u2019s origins and evolution. Melons grown in medieval China may have looked and tasted very different from the sweet varieties enjoyed today. DNA recovered from ancient seeds suggests these fruits had light-green flesh, yellow skin, and genetic ties [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient DNA recovered from melon seeds at a medieval Chinese port is revealing surprising clues about the fruit\u2019s origins and evolution. Melons grown in medieval China may have looked and tasted very different from the sweet varieties enjoyed today. DNA recovered from ancient seeds suggests these fruits had light-green flesh, yellow skin, and genetic ties &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/10\/30\/scientists-unlock-a-1000-year-old-mystery-buried-inside-ancient-melon-seeds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Unlock a 1,000-Year-Old Mystery Buried Inside Ancient Melon Seeds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}