{"id":267621,"date":"2010-02-02T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/02\/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-birds-dinosaur-ancestors\/"},"modified":"2010-02-02T20:52:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T01:52:17","slug":"archaeologists-find-evidence-of-birds%e2%80%99-dinosaur-ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/267621","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists find evidence of birds\u2019 dinosaur ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many different kinds of animals coexisted during the Jurassic period, from primitive birds to two-legged, large-jawed dinosaurs. As different as they sound, archaeologists have suspected that they share a common ancestry. Two new studies of fossils from China show that bird-like dinosaurs predate the earliest official birds, and shed light on the origin of feathers.\n<\/p>\n

\nScientists have generally accepted that birds and theropods, bipedal dinosaurs \u00e0 la Tyrannosaurus rex, share a common history somewhere back down the genetic line, but they’ve had trouble locating ancestors of the two groups. The early appearance of the first known bird-like animal, the archaeopteryx, relative to theropods has been particularly confounding, and has even been taken as evidence by some archaeologists that the two groups are unrelated.\n<\/p>\n

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Many different kinds of animals coexisted during the Jurassic period, from primitive birds to two-legged, large-jawed dinosaurs. As different as they sound, archaeologists have suspected that they share a common ancestry. Two new studies of fossils from China show that bird-like dinosaurs predate the earliest official birds, and shed light on the origin of feathers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}