{"id":133593,"date":"2022-01-05T05:22:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/medical-scan-reveals-the-secrets-of-new-zealands-extinct-marine-reptiles"},"modified":"2022-01-05T05:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T13:22:45","slug":"medical-scan-reveals-the-secrets-of-new-zealands-extinct-marine-reptiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/medical-scan-reveals-the-secrets-of-new-zealands-extinct-marine-reptiles","title":{"rendered":"Medical scan reveals the secrets of New Zealand\u2019s extinct marine reptiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/medical-scan-reveals-the-secrets-of-new-zealands-extinct-marine-reptiles2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s fossil record of land dinosaurs is poor, with just a few bones, but the collection of ancient extinct marine reptiles is remarkable, including shark-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/animal\/plesiosaur\">Plesiosaurs<\/a> first appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fossil+record\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fossil record<\/a> around 200 million years ago and died off, alongside dinosaurs, 66 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>They are best known for the fanciful but appealing idea, suggested by British scientist Sir Peter Scott, that the fabled <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loch_Ness_Monster\">Loch Ness monster<\/a> was in fact a plesiosaur that somehow outlasted all other giant reptiles and remained undetected throughout human history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u2019s fossil record of land dinosaurs is poor, with just a few bones, but the collection of ancient extinct marine reptiles is remarkable, including shark-like mosasaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the fossil record around 200 million years ago and died off, alongside dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. They are best known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133593","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}