{"id":379227,"date":"2017-09-27T07:57:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3d5422ac4552e0d390103261fb6810a7"},"modified":"2017-09-27T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:57:05","slug":"how-did-dinosaurs-evolve-beaks-and-become-birds-scientists-think-they-have-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=379227","title":{"rendered":"How did dinosaurs evolve beaks and become birds? Scientists think they have the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you know that many dinosaurs had feathers, it seems much more obvious that they probably evolved into birds. But there&#8217;s still a big question. How did a set of dinosaurian jaws with abundant teeth (think T. rex) turn into the toothless jaws of modern birds, covered by a beak? Two things had to happen in this transition, suppression of the teeth and growth of the beak. Now new fossil evidence has shown how it happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you know that many dinosaurs had feathers, it seems much more obvious that they probably evolved into birds. But there&#8217;s still a big question. How did a set of dinosaurian jaws with abundant teeth (think T. rex) turn into the toothless jaws of mod&#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-379227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379227","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=379227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379228,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379227\/revisions\/379228"}],"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=379227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}