{"id":332592,"date":"2017-06-19T15:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/06\/170619151534.htm"},"modified":"2017-06-19T15:15:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T19:15:34","slug":"tiny-fossils-reveal-backstory-of-the-most-mysterious-amphibian-alive-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=332592","title":{"rendered":"Tiny fossils reveal backstory of the most mysterious amphibian alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fossils of an extinct species from the Triassic Period are the long-missing link that connects Kermit the Frog&#8217;s amphibian brethren to wormlike creatures with a backbone and two rows of sharp teeth, new research shows. Named Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, the newfound fossil is the oldest relative of the most mysterious group of amphibians: caecilians. Today, these limbless, colorful serpentine carnivores live underground and range in size from 6 inches to 5 feet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossils of an extinct species from the Triassic Period are the long-missing link that connects Kermit the Frog&#8217;s amphibian brethren to wormlike creatures with a backbone and two rows of sharp teeth, new research shows. Named Chinlestegophis jenkins&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332593,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332592\/revisions\/332593"}],"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=332592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}