{"id":688073,"date":"2021-04-23T04:41:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688073"},"modified":"2021-04-23T04:41:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T08:41:38","slug":"fossils-of-giant-cloud-rats-discovered-in-philippine-caves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688073","title":{"rendered":"Fossils of &#039;giant cloud rats&#039; discovered in Philippine caves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rats, by and large, aren&#8217;t terribly popular animals. But while you don&#8217;t want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are downright cuddly. These &#8220;giant cloud rats&#8221; live in the treetops of misty mountain forests, and they fill an ecological role occupied by squirrels in the US. And, it turns out, we have new evidence that they&#8217;ve been living in the Philippines for a long time\u2014scientists have discovered the fossils of three new species of giant cloud rats that lived alongside ancient humans.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-fossils-giant-cloud-rats-philippine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Fossils of &#8216;giant cloud rats&#8217; discovered in Philippine caves<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rats, by and large, aren&#8217;t terribly popular animals. But while you don&#8217;t want an infestation of common black rats living in your house, their distant cousins in the Philippines are&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-688073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688073","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=688073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688073\/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=688073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}