{"id":571958,"date":"2019-01-24T16:30:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ddc61b103db1d114ac30d2d3d4eb0e1d"},"modified":"2019-01-24T16:30:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:30:15","slug":"odd-duckbilled-sea-reptile-thrived-after-ancient-global-calamity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=571958","title":{"rendered":"Odd duckbilled sea reptile thrived after ancient global calamity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In shallow warm seas about 247 million years ago in what is now China, an oddball marine reptile flourished in the aftermath of Earth&#8217;s worst mass extinction, possessing a duckbilled snout and unusually small eyes that made it resemble a platypus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=ijZYDJmR_Jk:TrRgmZSWQXQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=ijZYDJmR_Jk:TrRgmZSWQXQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=ijZYDJmR_Jk:TrRgmZSWQXQ:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=ijZYDJmR_Jk:TrRgmZSWQXQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=ijZYDJmR_Jk:TrRgmZSWQXQ:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/ijZYDJmR_Jk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In shallow warm seas about 247 million years ago in what is now China, an oddball marine reptile flourished in the aftermath of Earth&#8217;s worst mass extinction, possessing a duckbilled snout and unusually small eyes that made it resemble a platypus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571958","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=571958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571959,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571958\/revisions\/571959"}],"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=571958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=571958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=571958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}