{"id":18644,"date":"2018-12-12T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18644"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:27:35","slug":"talked-to-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/12\/talked-to-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Talked To Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Paleontologists recently announced a new find, as <strong><em>Sci-News<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/paleontology\/elephant-sized-dicynodont-triassic-period-lisowicia-bojani-06649.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Paleontologists recently announced a new find, as Sci-News reports: (opens in a new tab)\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.sci-news.com\/images\/2018\/11\/image_6649_1-Lisowicia-bojani.jpg?w=800\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov \/ CC BY 3.0.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Named Lisowicia bojani, the ancient creature belongs to Dicynodontia (dicynodonts), a group of plant-eating, mammal-like reptiles.<\/p><p>\u201cDicynodonts were among the most abundant and diverse synapids \u2014 early four-legged land vertebrates that gave rise to modern-day mammals \u2014 from the middle Permian (around 299 to 251 million years ago) to the early Late Triassic (around 237 million years ago),\u201d said Dr. Tomasz Sulej from Poland\u2019s Institute of Paleobiology and Dr. Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki of Uppsala University.<\/p><p>\u201cFossils of Triassic dicynodonts are extremely abundant in African, Asian, and North and South Americans deposits but are comparatively poorly known from the other regions like Europe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mammal-like reptiles<\/em>, wish I knew a thing or three about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mammal-like reptiles, wish I knew a thing or three about cladistics. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cladistics\" target=\"_blank\">cladistics<\/a>. The remark might make more sense then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 9 tons mass, though, they would have been a bit of a bite for most predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists recently announced a new find, as Sci-News reports: Named Lisowicia bojani, the ancient creature belongs to Dicynodontia (dicynodonts), a group of plant-eating, mammal-like reptiles. \u201cDicynodonts were among the most abundant and diverse synapids \u2014 early four-legged land vertebrates that gave rise to modern-day mammals \u2014 from the middle Permian \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/12\/12\/talked-to-dinosaurs\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18645,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18644\/revisions\/18645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}