{"id":428431,"date":"2018-01-17T11:09:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=13e3c3cd446149efec5b681389d83e5b"},"modified":"2018-01-17T11:09:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T15:09:48","slug":"why-dont-turtles-still-have-tail-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=428431","title":{"rendered":"Why don&#8217;t turtles still have tail spikes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all familiar with those awesome armored giants of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods &#8211; Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus &#8211; and their amazing, weaponized tails. But why aren&#8217;t similar weaponized tails found in animals living today? In a study covering 300 million years of evolutionary history, researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences found four necessary components to tail weapon development: size, armor, herbivory and thoracic stiffness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re all familiar with those awesome armored giants of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods &#8211; Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus &#8211; and their amazing, weaponized tails. But why aren&#8217;t similar weaponized tails found in animals living today? In a study covering&#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-428431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428431","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=428431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428432,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428431\/revisions\/428432"}],"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=428431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}