{"id":8962,"date":"2017-04-07T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8962"},"modified":"2017-04-07T18:27:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T23:27:42","slug":"finding-the-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/07\/finding-the-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding The Rare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Tarlach on <em><strong>Dead Things<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/deadthings\/2017\/03\/15\/sharks-missing-link-to-the-past\/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=News0_DSC_170316_000000_Final%20remainder&amp;utm_content=&amp;spMailingID=28275624&amp;spUserID=MTE2MDc3MjcxNjY5S0&amp;spJobID=1002379151&amp;spReportId=MTAwMjM3OTE1MQS2#.WOgeydas6Cg\" target=\"_blank\">discusses<\/a> a recently resolved mystery:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitallibrary.amnh.org\/handle\/2246\/6701\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> recently in <em>American Museum Novitates<\/em>, a new high-tech reinvestigation of a well-preserved fossil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v425\/n6957\/abs\/nature02001.html\" target=\"_blank\">first described<\/a> in 2003 revealed the animal was more than an Early Devonian sharklike fish.<\/p>\n<p>Though its swimming days ended\u00a0about\u00a0400 million years ago, this fossilized fella \u2014 with the great name of <em>Doliodus problematicus<\/em> \u2014\u00a0has found its place as a missing link in the deep backstory of some of today\u2019s most intriguing and iconic animals. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now that we\u2019ve got all the big words out of the way, what does the new research tell us? Well, it\u2019s pretty exciting: thanks to CT scanning, researchers now consider Doliodus to be a truly transitional animal, an acanthodian on its way to becoming a chondrichthyan \u2014 a snapshot of the evolutionary process.<\/p>\n<p>In some ways, Doliodus is the shark equivalent of our own famous distant kin <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/deadthings\/2016\/11\/30\/the-latest-on-lucy-early-hominin-spent-serious-time-in-trees\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lucy<\/a>, the <em>Australopithecus afarensis<\/em> from Ethiopia: We can see primitive traits hanging on in a species while derived, or more evolved features, arise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Tarlach on Dead Things discusses a recently resolved mystery: Published recently in American Museum Novitates, a new high-tech reinvestigation of a well-preserved fossil first described in 2003 revealed the animal was more than an Early Devonian sharklike fish. Though its swimming days ended\u00a0about\u00a0400 million years ago, this fossilized fella \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/07\/finding-the-rare\/\"> 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-8962","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\/8962","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=8962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8963,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8962\/revisions\/8963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}