{"id":332930,"date":"2025-04-15T19:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=332930"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:27:35","slug":"lichens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lichens\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>A recent experiment has shown that lichens can thrive in Martian simulation, showcasing another step towards life on Mars. <strong>Lichens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-333164 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?resize=433%2C287&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lichens\" width=\"433\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Lichens<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>They are a <strong>complex life form<\/strong> that is a <strong>symbiotic partnership<\/strong> of two separate organisms, a <strong>fungus and an alga<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>outer skin and internal structure<\/strong> of a lichen is <strong>made of strands of fungal hyphae<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Interspersed among the strands inside the lichen are <strong>individual cells of algae<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Lichens <strong>do not have roots<\/strong> or structures like other plants, they <strong>depend on the atmosphere for air and water<\/strong>. So, the <strong>quality of ambience<\/strong> reflects in the <strong>diversity<\/strong> of lichens.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spread:<\/strong> Between six to eight percent of Earth\u2019s surface is covered by lichen, with over 15,000 known species.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>&#8211; India&#8217;s first Lichen Park was established in 2020 in Munsiyari, Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: A recent experiment has shown that lichens can thrive in Martian simulation, showcasing another step towards life on Mars. Lichens. About Lichens They are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. The outer skin and internal structure of a lichen is made of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lichens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lichens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":333164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-332930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Lichens-1.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}