{"id":586235,"date":"2019-03-01T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3ce870c387b4fefa9e65f6e7d68112c5"},"modified":"2019-03-01T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:57:11","slug":"a-small-plesiosaur-lived-in-spain-125-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=586235","title":{"rendered":"A small plesiosaur lived in Spain 125 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plesiosaurs, erroneously viewed as dinosaurs, inhabited all Earth&#8217;s oceans between 200 million and 65 million years ago. In the Peninsula, only scarce remains of these long-necked reptiles had been found. Now, a group of palaeontologists has found the most abundant collection of fossils in Morella, Castell\u00f3n. Among them, there is one vertebra that belonged to a type of plesiosaur never before discovered in the country, the leptocleidus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plesiosaurs, erroneously viewed as dinosaurs, inhabited all Earth&#8217;s oceans between 200 million and 65 million years ago. In the Peninsula, only scarce remains of these long-necked reptiles had been found. Now, a group of palaeontologists has found the most abundant collection of fossils in Morella, Castell&oacute;n. Among them, there is one vertebra that belonged to a type of plesiosaur never before discovered in the country, the leptocleidus.<\/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-586235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586235","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=586235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586236,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586235\/revisions\/586236"}],"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=586235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}