{"id":7153,"date":"2016-12-13T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T06:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7153"},"modified":"2016-12-13T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T06:19:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>toxodon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 352px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/db\/Toxodon_skeleton.jpg\/440px-Toxodon_skeleton.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"181\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/db\/Toxodon_skeleton.jpg\/440px-Toxodon_skeleton.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wikimedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Toxodon<\/i> was a large herbivorous mammal that was similar in proportion to a rhinoceros,\u202d \u202cbut also possessed other features that were similar to hippopotamuses and possibly even elephants.\u202d \u202cThe post cranial skeleton has a very robust construction which suggests that in life <i>Toxodon<\/i> was a very heavy animal.\u202d \u202cThe feet were plantigrade which means that <i>Toxodon<\/i> walked with the flat of its foot so that it could better support its body weight.\u202d \u202cThe body was wide which suggests that <i>Toxodon<\/i> had an extensive digestive system for processing plant matter.\u202d \u202cThe hind legs were much longer than the fore legs which meant that the main body sloped down towards the front.\u202d \u202cThis also meant that the head was carried closer to the ground where <i>Toxodon<\/i> could feed upon low growing vegetation.\u202d \u202cThe neural spines of the anterior dorsal vertebrae were enlarged,\u202d \u202ceither providing anchor points for neck muscles that supported the heavy skull,\u202d \u202cor supported the formation of\u202d \u202ca\u202d \u202cfatty hump that served as storage for leaner times. <em>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prehistoric-wildlife.com\/species\/t\/toxodon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PrehistoricWildlife.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/244-1701\/world\" target=\"_blank\">Mentioned<\/a> in <em><strong>Archaeology Magazine<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"content_body\"><strong>ARGENTINA<\/strong>: Evidence continues to build that humans occupied the Americas well before the Clovis culture emerged around 13,000 years ago. At the site of Arroyo Seco 2, archaeologists have uncovered bits of stone tools and animal bones with telltale butchery marks dating to as long as 14,000 years ago. On the menu was a variety of extinct megafauna, including giant ground sloths, car-sized glyptodonts, and toxodons, rhino-like hooved animals with prominent incisors. \u2014Samir S. Patel<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>toxodon: Toxodon was a large herbivorous mammal that was similar in proportion to a rhinoceros,\u202d \u202cbut also possessed other features that were similar to hippopotamuses and possibly even elephants.\u202d \u202cThe post cranial skeleton has a very robust construction which suggests that in life Toxodon was a very heavy animal.\u202d \u202cThe \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/12\/13\/word-of-the-day-55\/\"> 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-7153","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\/7153","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=7153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7156,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7153\/revisions\/7156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}