{"id":688383,"date":"2021-04-27T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688383"},"modified":"2021-04-27T05:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T09:00:01","slug":"extinct-horned-crocodile-gets-new-spot-in-the-tree-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=688383","title":{"rendered":"Extinct &#039;horned&#039; crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History has resolved a long-standing controversy about an extinct &#8220;horned&#8221; crocodile that likely lived among humans in Madagascar. Based on ancient DNA, the research shows that the horned crocodile was closely related to &#8220;true&#8221; crocodiles, including the famous Nile crocodile, but on a separate branch of the crocodile family tree. The study, published today in the journal Communications Biology, contradicts the most recent scientific thinking about the horned crocodile&#8217;s evolutionary relationships and also suggests that the ancestor of modern crocodiles likely originated in Africa.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-04-extinct-horned-crocodile-tree-life.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Extinct &#8216;horned&#8217; crocodile gets new spot in the tree of life<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History has resolved a long-standing controversy about an extinct &#8220;horned&#8221; crocodile that likely lived among humans in Madagascar. Based&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-688383","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\/688383","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=688383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688383\/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=688383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}