{"id":25218,"date":"2025-10-01T19:45:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25218"},"modified":"2025-10-01T19:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:45:36","slug":"mix-and-match-fossils-tell-the-tale-of-snake-and-lizard-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=25218","title":{"rendered":"Mix-and-match fossils tell the tale of snake and lizard evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Nature, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038\/d41586-025-02972-2<\/p>\n<p>Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex evolutionary journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature, Published online: 01 October 2025; doi:10.1038\/d41586-025-02972-2 Little is known about the early history of lizards, snakes and their kin. New fossil discoveries reveal a complex evolutionary journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[7832,10268,2141,15248,8894,6188],"class_list":{"0":"post-25218","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-evolution","9":"tag-fossils","10":"tag-lizard","11":"tag-mixandmatch","12":"tag-snake","13":"tag-tale"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}