{"id":751764,"date":"2023-03-28T12:30:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751764"},"modified":"2023-03-28T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:30:46","slug":"extinction-of-steam-locomotives-derails-assumptions-about-biological-evolution-claims-researcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=751764","title":{"rendered":"Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution, claims researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Kinks&#8217; Ray Davies penned the tune &#8220;Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,&#8221; the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at the University of Kansas, the replacement of steam-powered trains with diesel and electric engines, as well as cars and trucks, might be a model of how some species in the fossil record died out.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-extinction-steam-locomotives-derails-assumptions.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Extinction of steam locomotives derails assumptions about biological evolution, claims researcher<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Kinks&#8217; Ray Davies penned the tune &#8220;Last of the Steam-Powered Trains,&#8221; the vanishing locomotives stood as nostalgic symbols of a simpler English life. But for a paleontologist at&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-751764","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\/751764","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=751764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751764\/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=751764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=751764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=751764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}