{"id":581519,"date":"2019-02-19T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=593b5e93aaa75bf7e28311932386eeca"},"modified":"2019-02-19T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T00:00:01","slug":"want-to-learn-about-dinosaurs-pick-up-some-louisiana-roadkill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581519","title":{"rendered":"Want to learn about dinosaurs? Pick up some Louisiana roadkill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fossil-hunting can be grueling, but it&#8217;s usually not gross. Paleontologists typically work with things that have been dead for millions of years, mineralized into rock and no longer smelly. At the end of a day in the field, the researchers just have to dust themselves off and wash muddy boots and sweaty clothes. But for a new study delving into the ecosystems that dinosaurs lived in, a team of paleontologists found themselves scraping swamp rabbits and armadillos off the Louisiana highway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossil-hunting can be grueling, but it&#8217;s usually not gross. Paleontologists typically work with things that have been dead for millions of years, mineralized into rock and no longer smelly. At the end of a day in the field, the researchers just have to&#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-581519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581519","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=581519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581520,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581519\/revisions\/581520"}],"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=581519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}