{"id":294654,"date":"2017-03-30T09:50:21","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a579c0d39bb6bc3e7a6a8d1967319923"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:50:21","slug":"discovery-of-new-predatory-dinosaur-species-gives-new-insight-on-their-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=294654","title":{"rendered":"Discovery of new predatory dinosaur species gives new insight on their evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jayc Sedlmayr, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology &#038; Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of an international team of scientists who discovered a new tyrannosaur with an unusual mode of evolution. Their findings include that Daspletosaurus horneri, or &#8220;Horner&#8217;s Frightful Lizard,&#8221; evolved directly from its geologically older relative, D. torosus, a rare form of evolution called anagenesis where one species gradually morphs into a new one. The research also changes the face of tyrannosaurs, which the team concluded was covered by a lipless mask of large, flat scales, with smaller patches of armor-like skin and horn, as well as a highly touch-sensitive snout. The work is published online in Nature Research&#8217;s Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jayc Sedlmayr, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology &amp; Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of an international team of scientists who discovered a new tyrannosaur with an unusual mode of evolution. Their findings include that Daspletosaurus horneri, or &#8220;Horner&#8217;s Frightful Lizard,&#8221; evolved directly from its geologically older relative, D. torosus, a rare form of evolution called anagenesis where one species gradually morphs into a new one. The research also changes the face of tyrannosaurs, which the team concluded was covered by a lipless mask of large, flat scales, with smaller patches of armor-like skin and horn, as well as a highly touch-sensitive snout. The work is published online in Nature Research&#8217;s Scientific Reports.<\/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-294654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654","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=294654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294655,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294654\/revisions\/294655"}],"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=294654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}