{"id":310044,"date":"2017-05-03T08:40:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=30e02129889d6bef456307fe5c142dfa"},"modified":"2017-05-03T08:40:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T12:40:05","slug":"new-species-of-troodontid-with-asymmetric-feathers-found-in-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=310044","title":{"rendered":"New species of troodontid with asymmetric feathers found in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)\u2014A team of researchers from Hong Kong, China and Canada has identified a new species of Chinese troodontid\u2014an ancient species that sported asymmetric feathers. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the team describes the specimen, which has been likened to a giant chicken with teeth, and why they believe the find extends the emergence of a certain trait further back in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Phys.org)&mdash;A team of researchers from Hong Kong, China and Canada has identified a new species of Chinese troodontid&mdash;an ancient species that sported asymmetric feathers. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the team describes the specimen, which has been likened to a giant chicken with teeth, and why they believe the find extends the emergence of a certain trait further back in time.<\/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-310044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310044","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=310044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310045,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310044\/revisions\/310045"}],"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=310044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}