{"id":359708,"date":"2010-02-24T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2010-02-24T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T16:23:41","slug":"scientists-blow-up-super-hard-rock-to-get-to-dinosaur-skulls-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359708","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Blow Up Super-Hard Rock to Get to Dinosaur Skulls | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/02\/24\/scientists-blow-up-rock-to-get-to-well-preserved-dino-skulls\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/02\/24\/scientists-blow-up-rock-to-get-to-well-preserved-dino-skulls\/2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10758\" title=\"dino-blast-1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/files\/2010\/02\/dino-blast-1.jpg\" alt=\"dino-blast-1\" width=\"600\" height=\"429\" align=\"center\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dinosaurs and explosives\u2014science stories don&#8217;t get much cooler than this.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in Utah have excavated two complete and two partial skulls of a dino called <em>Abydosaurus mcintoshi<\/em>, a 105-million-year-old sauropod, which the scientists think might have descended from the brachiosaurus family. <span style=\"color:#1c39bb;\">&#8220;It is amazing. You can hold the skull in your hands and look into the eyes of something that lived a very long time ago&#8221; [<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/sciencefair\/post\/2010\/02\/dinosaur-skulls-reveal-sauropod-secrets\/1\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a>]<\/span>, says paleontologist Brooks Britt, co-author of the study that appeared in the journal <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.springer.com\/life+sciences\/journal\/114\"><em>Naturwissenschaften<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click through the photo gallery for more pictures from the dig, and for the whole story.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image: Brigham Young University<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\" align=\"left\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/80beats\/2010\/02\/24\/scientists-blow-up-rock-to-get-to-well-preserved-dino-skulls\/2\/\"><strong><span style=\"font-family:Georgia, serif;\">NEXT<\/span>&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87pZ4xMsa5fMrq3iM_vmuLeiry8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87pZ4xMsa5fMrq3iM_vmuLeiry8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87pZ4xMsa5fMrq3iM_vmuLeiry8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/87pZ4xMsa5fMrq3iM_vmuLeiry8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?i=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?i=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?a=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/80beats?i=wQIrpq--s1c:CDONCDQQuxk:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/80beats\/~4\/wQIrpq--s1c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/H9e9nid7ns0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEXT&gt; Dinosaurs and explosives\u2014science stories don&#8217;t get much cooler than this. Researchers in Utah have excavated two complete and two partial skulls of a dino called Abydosaurus mcintoshi, a 105-million-year-old sauropod, which the scientists think might have descended from the brachiosaurus family. &#8220;It is amazing. You can hold the skull in your hands and look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359708","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\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}