{"id":246505,"date":"2016-12-07T09:30:02","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf3a044eec38f16f61511f4b6669819d"},"modified":"2016-12-07T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T13:30:02","slug":"fossils-of-early-tetrapods-unearthed-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=246505","title":{"rendered":"Fossils of early tetrapods unearthed in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014A team of researchers working at a dig site in Scotland has found tetrapod fossils dated to approximately 15 million years after the Devonian mass extinction\u2014a time period experts in the field have referred to as &#8220;the gap,&#8221; because so few fossils of creatures from that time period have been found. In their paper published in the journal Nature Ecology &#038; Evolution, the team describes the fossils they uncovered and outline their place in the evolution of animal life on our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)&mdash;A team of researchers working at a dig site in Scotland has found tetrapod fossils dated to approximately 15 million years after the Devonian mass extinction&mdash;a time period experts in the field have referred to as &#8220;the gap,&#8221; because so few fossils of creatures from that time period have been found. In their paper published in the journal Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, the team describes the fossils they uncovered and outline their place in the evolution of animal life on our planet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246506,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246505\/revisions\/246506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}