{"id":402971,"date":"2017-11-14T07:53:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=98ae8ab83d290c1c140da0b58e075c57"},"modified":"2017-11-14T07:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:53:04","slug":"worlds-longest-sauropod-dinosaur-trackway-brought-to-light-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=402971","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s longest sauropod dinosaur trackway brought to light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the world&#8217;s largest dinosaur tracks were discovered in the French village of Plagne, in the Jura Mountains. Since then, a series of excavations at the site has uncovered other tracks, sprawling over more than 150 meters. They form the longest sauropod trackway ever to be found. Having compiled and analyzed the collected data, which is published in Geobios, scientists from the Laboratoire de G\u00e9ologie de Lyon (CNRS \/ ENS de Lyon \/ Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University), the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (CNRS \/ Universit\u00e9 Clermont Auvergne \/ Universit\u00e9 Jean Monnet \/ IRD), and the Pterosaur Beach Museum conclude these tracks were left 150 million years ago by a dinosaur at least 35 m long and weighing no less than 35 t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, the world&#8217;s largest dinosaur tracks were discovered in the French village of Plagne, in the Jura Mountains. Since then, a series of excavations at the site has uncovered other tracks, sprawling over more than 150 meters. They form the longest sauropod trackway ever to be found. Having compiled and analyzed the collected data, which is published in Geobios, scientists from the Laboratoire de G&eacute;ologie de Lyon (CNRS \/ ENS de Lyon \/ Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University), the Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans (CNRS \/ Universit&eacute; Clermont Auvergne \/ Universit&eacute; Jean Monnet \/ IRD), and the Pterosaur Beach Museum conclude these tracks were left 150 million years ago by a dinosaur at least 35 m long and weighing no less than 35 t.<\/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-402971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402971","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=402971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402972,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402971\/revisions\/402972"}],"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=402971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}