{"id":4823,"date":"2016-08-27T10:10:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T15:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2016-10-05T17:34:03","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T22:34:03","slug":"name-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/27\/name-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Name of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum<\/em>. From Gemma Tarlach on <em><strong>Discover&#8217;s Dead Things<\/strong><\/em> blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Whollydooleya<\/em>, <em>Wholly<\/em> for short, is considered a hypercarnivore. While that sounds either like some kind of super predator, or maybe a carnivore with a lot of energy, it just means it ate mostly meat. Not exciting enough for you? Okay, well consider that the <a href=\"https:\/\/museumvictoria.com.au\/about\/books-and-journals\/journals\/memoirs-of-museum-victoria\/2010-2019\/2016-vol-74-special-issue-in-honour-of-dr-thomas-h-rich\/archer-et-al\/\" target=\"_blank\">description<\/a> of the animal, published in\u00a0<em>Memoirs of Museum Victoria<\/em>, paints a picture of a carnivore weighing around 50 pounds (20-25kg), considerably bigger than a Tassie devil (22 pounds, or 10kg), with teeth capable of shearing through all things munchable and crunchable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the evidence?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I know what you\u2019re thinking, where are the photos of this wonderful new Beast of Yore? <em>Wholly<\/em> is, alas, so far known from a single molar. The tooth has enough highly specialized features, however, to tell researchers a great deal about its size and diet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paleontologists are just highly specialized detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whollydooleya tomnpatrichorum. From Gemma Tarlach on Discover&#8217;s Dead Things blog: Whollydooleya, Wholly for short, is considered a hypercarnivore. While that sounds either like some kind of super predator, or maybe a carnivore with a lot of energy, it just means it ate mostly meat. Not exciting enough for you? Okay, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/08\/27\/name-of-the-day\/\"> 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-4823","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\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}