{
  "id": 10971502,
  "title": "Asgard archaea suggest crawling motility may be far older than previously thought",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/asgard-archaea-suggest-crawling-motility-may-be-far-older-than",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-30T15:00:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-asgard-archaea-motility-older-previously.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Asgard archaea, our closest known microbial relatives, play a key role in current models of the origin of more complex organisms, known as eukaryotes (all animals, plants, protists and fungi). However, their biology has so far been poorly understood.",
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  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}