{"id":1009,"date":"2008-11-03T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T23:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2008-11-05T01:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T01:01:47","slug":"caltechs-death-star-insight-on-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/11\/03\/caltechs-death-star-insight-on-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"CalTech&#8217;s Death-Star Insight on Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WONDERING what the world will look like when the heat is on?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A newly discovered micro-fossil of an organism that lived during a previous global warming is helping researchers understand how aquatic life could adapt to the warmer, lower oxygen, waters that may accompany radical environmental transformations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1010\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1010\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1010\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/11\/03\/caltechs-death-star-insight-on-global-warming\/13195_magnetic_death_star\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"590,805\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"13195_magnetic_death_star\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Magnetic Death Star&amp;#8221;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1010\" title=\"13195_magnetic_death_star\" src=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star.jpg 590w, https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/13195_magnetic_death_star-219x300.jpg 219w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1010\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Magnetic Death Star&quot;   -  CalTech image <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dubbed the \u201cMagnetic Death Star\u201d, due to its round and spiky <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnetite\">magnetite<\/a> structure, the fossil was found among sediment deposited 55 million years ago during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paleocene-Eocene_Thermal_Maximum\">Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)<\/a>, when surging atmospheric carbon drove temperatures 9 degrees Fahrenheit higher.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\">CalTech<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/\">McGill<\/a> University workers believe the single-celled eukaryote evolved during the PETM, only to be out-competed and disappear again when conditions cooled off (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/a>, DOI:10.1073 \/ pnas.0803634105).<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WONDERING what the world will look like when the heat is on? A newly discovered micro-fossil of an organism that lived during a previous global warming is helping researchers understand how aquatic life could adapt to the warmer, lower oxygen, waters that may accompany radical environmental transformations. Dubbed the \u201cMagnetic Death Star\u201d, due to its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2008\/11\/03\/caltechs-death-star-insight-on-global-warming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CalTech&#8217;s Death-Star Insight on Global Warming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,80,9,10,298],"tags":[201,90,302,1403,304,173,301,308,305,310,303],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-environment","category-nature","category-news","category-paleontology","tag-california","tag-climate-change","tag-death-star","tag-environment","tag-fossil","tag-global-warming","tag-magnetic-death-star","tag-magnetite","tag-microfossil","tag-paleocene-eocene-thermal-maximum","tag-petm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkpOr-gh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1045,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}