{"id":709721,"date":"2021-11-30T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709721"},"modified":"2021-11-30T18:39:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:39:55","slug":"bringing-400-million-year-old-fossilized-armored-worms-to-virtual-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709721","title":{"rendered":"Bringing 400-million-year-old fossilized armored worms to \u2018virtual\u2019 life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have documented the discovery of two new species of fossilized armored worms in Australia &#8212; Lepidocoleus caliburnus and Lepidocoleus shurikenus &#8212; dating from about 400 million years ago. Then, using the micro-CT imaging capabilities of the MU X-ray Microanalysis Core facility, the researchers were able to develop first-of-its-kind digital 3D-models of the species&#8217; individual armor plates by virtually examining the armored skeletons of these ancient worms, called machaeridians.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2021\/11\/211130173955.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Bringing 400-million-year-old fossilized armored worms to \u2018virtual\u2019 life<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have documented the discovery of two new species of fossilized armored worms in Australia &#8212; Lepidocoleus caliburnus and Lepidocoleus shurikenus &#8212; dating from about 400 million years ago. Then,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709721","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709721\/revisions"}],"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=709721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}