{"id":649530,"date":"2020-03-18T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649530"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T16:09:25","slug":"wonderchicken-fossil-from-belgium-reveals-dawn-of-modern-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=649530","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Wonderchicken&#039; fossil from Belgium reveals dawn of modern birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil unearthed in Belgium dubbed the &#8220;Wonderchicken&#8221; is providing a rare glimpse into the early evolution of modern birds at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, right before an asteroid impact altered the course of life on Earth.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=CnSGKcGUL_8:V0zPeKhGRKI:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=CnSGKcGUL_8:V0zPeKhGRKI:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=CnSGKcGUL_8:V0zPeKhGRKI:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~3\/CnSGKcGUL_8\/wonderchicken-fossil-from-belgium-reveals-dawn-of-modern-birds-idUSKBN2152UO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">&#8216;Wonderchicken&#8217; fossil from Belgium reveals dawn of modern birds<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Reuters Science News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil unearthed in Belgium dubbed the &#8220;Wonderchicken&#8221; is providing a rare glimpse into the early evolution of modern birds at the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, right before&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649530","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649530\/revisions"}],"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=649530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}