{"id":469451,"date":"2018-05-01T16:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/05\/180501161805.htm"},"modified":"2018-05-01T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:18:05","slug":"mercury-rising-new-evidence-that-volcanism-triggered-the-late-devonian-extinction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=469451","title":{"rendered":"Mercury Rising: New evidence that volcanism triggered the late Devonian extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The late Devonian extinction, about 370 million years ago, is one of the &#8216;Big Five.&#8217; It killed up to 80 percent of species, obliterating the lavish Devonian coral reef ecosystem. The final pulse in this multi-step crisis, called the Frasnian-Famennian event, was its most devastating. But what, exactly, did the killing? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late Devonian extinction, about 370 million years ago, is one of the &#8216;Big Five.&#8217; It killed up to 80 percent of species, obliterating the lavish Devonian coral reef ecosystem. The final pulse in this multi-step crisis, called the Frasnian-Famennian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-469451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=469451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469452,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469451\/revisions\/469452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}