{"id":339880,"date":"2017-07-05T03:15:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T07:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b5997f109da5be1393b4b99e40070d8f"},"modified":"2017-07-05T03:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T07:15:49","slug":"sticking-your-neck-out-how-did-plesiosaurs-swim-with-such-long-necks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=339880","title":{"rendered":"Sticking your neck out: How did plesiosaurs swim with such long necks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks &#8211; some of which were up to 7 metres long &#8211; plesiosaurs have remained an evolutionary mystery for hundreds of years. Pernille V. Troelsen, a PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University, UK is simulating plesiosaur locomotion with a 3D model to understand how they could swim with such long necks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When dinosaurs ruled the land, plesiosaurs ruled the oceans. Famous for their incredibly long necks &#8211; some of which were up to 7 metres long &#8211; plesiosaurs have remained an evolutionary mystery for hundreds of years. Pernille V. Troelsen, a PhD student &#8230;<\/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-339880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339880","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=339880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339881,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339880\/revisions\/339881"}],"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=339880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}