{"id":15655,"date":"2016-12-09T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=15655"},"modified":"2016-12-09T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:04:09","slug":"tgif-first-ever-dinosaur-tail-found-encased-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/12\/09\/tgif-first-ever-dinosaur-tail-found-encased-amber\/","title":{"rendered":"TGIF!! First Ever Dinosaur Tail Found Encased in Amber!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Check this out!!\u00a0According to a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/fulltext\/S0960-9822(16)31193-9\">Current Biology<\/a><\/em> report, a dinosaur tail has been found preserved in amber &#8212; feathers, soft tissue, bone, and all! It&#8217;s 99 million years old!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LOOK!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15658\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sm-06_dinosaur_tail.adapt_.1190.1.jpg\" alt=\"sm-06_dinosaur_tail-adapt-1190-1\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Photo by R.C. McKellar, Royal Saskatchewan Museum<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes! I said FEATHERS!! Scientists say it&#8217;s unlikely that the dinosaur was able to fly though!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15657\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sm-05_dinosaur_tail.ngsversion.1481216415800.adapt_.1900.1.jpg\" alt=\"sm-05_dinosaur_tail-ngsversion-1481216415800-adapt-1900-1\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Photo by Royal Saskatchewan Museum<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>This amber sample (nicknamed &#8220;Eva&#8221;) was discovered in a northern Myanmar mine by a research team led by paleontologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinglida.net\/\">Lida Xing<\/a> of the China University of Geosciences. Xing feels confident that a &#8220;complete dinosaur&#8221; can be found!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about this important (and super-cool) discovery over at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/12\/feathered-dinosaur-tail-amber-theropod-myanmar-burma-cretaceous\/\">National Geographic<\/a><\/em>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TGIF!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check this out!!\u00a0According to a Current Biology report, a dinosaur tail has been found preserved in amber &#8212; feathers, soft tissue, bone, and all! It&#8217;s 99 million years old!\u00a0 LOOK!!\u00a0 Photo by R.C. McKellar, Royal Saskatchewan Museum Yes! I said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesome","category-cool","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15663,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15655\/revisions\/15663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}