{"id":578938,"date":"2019-02-13T09:16:37","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/02\/190213081637.htm"},"modified":"2019-02-13T09:16:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T13:16:37","slug":"giant-megalodon-shark-extinct-earlier-than-previously-thought-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=578938","title":{"rendered":"Giant &#8216;megalodon&#8217; shark extinct earlier than previously thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Megalodon&#8217; &#8212; a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous documentaries, books and blockbuster movies &#8212; likely went extinct at least one million years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. This is a substantial adjustment as it means that O. megalodon likely went extinct long before a suite of strange seals, walruses, sea cows, porpoises, dolphins and whales all disappeared sometime about 1-2.5 million years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Megalodon&#8217; &#8212; a giant predatory shark that has inspired numerous documentaries, books and blockbuster movies &#8212; likely went extinct at least one million years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. This is a substantial adjustment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578938","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578939,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578938\/revisions\/578939"}],"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=578938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}