{"id":576575,"date":"2019-02-07T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=c577c0cb9b7e1ea60260d1ca939964d5"},"modified":"2019-02-07T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T16:00:09","slug":"earliest-known-seed-eating-perching-bird-discovered-in-fossil-lake-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=576575","title":{"rendered":"Earliest known seed-eating perching bird discovered in Fossil Lake, Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the birds you&#8217;ve ever seen\u2014sparrows, finches, robins, crows\u2014have one crucial thing in common: they&#8217;re all what scientists refer to as perching birds, or &#8220;passerines.&#8221; The passerines make up about 6,500 of the 10,000 bird species alive today. But while they&#8217;re everywhere now, they were once rare, and scientists are still learning about their origins. In a new paper in Current Biology, researchers have announced the discovery of one of the earliest known passerine birds, from 52 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the birds you&#8217;ve ever seen&mdash;sparrows, finches, robins, crows&mdash;have one crucial thing in common: they&#8217;re all what scientists refer to as perching birds, or &#8220;passerines.&#8221; The passerines make up about 6,500 of the 10,000 bird species alive today. But while they&#8217;re everywhere now, they were once rare, and scientists are still learning about their origins. In a new paper in Current Biology, researchers have announced the discovery of one of the earliest known passerine birds, from 52 million years ago.<\/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-576575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576575","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=576575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576576,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576575\/revisions\/576576"}],"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=576575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}