{"id":27592,"date":"2017-05-04T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T03:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/?p=27592"},"modified":"2017-05-08T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T03:44:20","slug":"researchers-identify-oldest-orchid-fossil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/04\/researchers-identify-oldest-orchid-fossil\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Identify Oldest Orchid Fossil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-05-evidence-oldest-orchid-fossil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scientists have identified evidence of the oldest orchid fossil on record.<\/a> Preserved in amber between 45 and 55 million years ago, a tiny gnat is carrying a tinier bundle of orchid pollen. &#8220;We probably shouldn&#8217;t say this about a plant, but orchids are very smart&#8221; laughed George Poinar, Jr., entomologist at Oregon State University, and lead author on the newly published discovery. It&#8217;s likely that orchids first evolved in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cretaceous\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Cretaceous Period<\/a>, blooming alongside the dinosaurs, and they&#8217;ve been enticing pollinators for tens of millions of years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have identified evidence of the oldest orchid fossil on record. Preserved in amber between 45 and 55 million years ago, a tiny gnat is carrying a tinier bundle of orchid pollen. &#8220;We probably shouldn&#8217;t say this about a plant, but orchids are very smart&#8221; laughed George Poinar, Jr., entomologist at Oregon State University, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27592"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27607,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27592\/revisions\/27607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.aboutorchids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}