{"id":103919,"date":"2020-03-18T18:25:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/wonderchicken-fossil-from-the-age-of-dinosaurs-reveals-origin-of-modern-birds"},"modified":"2020-03-18T18:25:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:25:46","slug":"wonderchicken-fossil-from-the-age-of-dinosaurs-reveals-origin-of-modern-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/wonderchicken-fossil-from-the-age-of-dinosaurs-reveals-origin-of-modern-birds","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wonderchicken\u2019 fossil from the age of dinosaurs reveals origin of modern birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wonderchicken-fossil-from-the-age-of-dinosaurs-reveals-origin-of-modern-birds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists.<\/p>\n<p>The spectacular fossil, affectionately nicknamed the \u2018Wonderchicken\u2019, includes a nearly complete <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/skull\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skull<\/a>, hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and dates from less than one million years before the asteroid impact which eliminated all large dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, the team, led by the University of Cambridge, believe the new fossil helps clarify why <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/birds\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">birds<\/a> survived the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, while the giant dinosaurs did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest fossil of a modern bird yet found, dating from the age of dinosaurs, has been identified by an international team of palaeontologists. The spectacular fossil, affectionately nicknamed the \u2018Wonderchicken\u2019, includes a nearly complete skull, hidden inside nondescript pieces of rock, and dates from less than one million years before the asteroid impact which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}