{"id":2128,"date":"2026-02-26T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mosquitoes-began-biting-humans-more-than-a-million-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:00:00","slug":"mosquitoes-began-biting-humans-more-than-a-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/mosquitoes-began-biting-humans-more-than-a-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosquitoes began biting humans more than a million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.\u200bA DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/mosquitoes-first-human-bite-years\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.\u200bA DNA analysis suggests mosquitoes shifted from nonhuman primates to early humans nearly 2 million years ago.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}