{"id":9287,"date":"2017-05-01T13:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9287"},"modified":"2017-05-01T13:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:25:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/01\/word-of-the-day-140\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Paleoburrow<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few years earlier, and about 1,700 miles to the southeast, another Brazilian geologist happened upon a different, equally peculiar\u00a0cave. Heinrich Frank, a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, was zipping down the highway on a Friday afternoon when he passed a construction site in the town of Novo Hamburgo. There, in a bank where excavators had eaten away half of a hill, he saw a peculiar hole.<\/p>\n<p>Local geology doesn\u2019t yield such a sight, so Frank went back a few weeks later and crawled inside. It was a single shaft, about 15 feet long; at its end, while on his back, he found what looked like claw marks all over the ceiling. Unable to identify any natural geological explanation for the cave\u2019s existence, he eventually concluded that it was a \u201cpaleoburrow,\u201d dug, he believes, by an extinct species of giant ground sloth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know there was such a thing as paleoburrows,\u201d says Frank. \u201cI\u2019m a geologist, a professor, and I\u2019d never even heard of them.\u201d [&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/crux\/2017\/03\/28\/paleoburrows-south-america\/#.WQd9TNas6Cg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Get Lost in Mega-Tunnels Dug by South American Megafauna<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Andrew Jenner, <em><strong>The Crux<\/strong><\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleoburrow: A few years earlier, and about 1,700 miles to the southeast, another Brazilian geologist happened upon a different, equally peculiar\u00a0cave. Heinrich Frank, a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, was zipping down the highway on a Friday afternoon when he passed a construction site in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/05\/01\/word-of-the-day-140\/\"> 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-9287","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\/9287","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=9287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9288,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9287\/revisions\/9288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}