{"id":137325,"date":"2022-03-24T19:23:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/36-million-year-old-fossil-of-sea-monster-found-in-desert"},"modified":"2022-03-24T19:23:33","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:23:33","slug":"36-million-year-old-fossil-of-sea-monster-found-in-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/36-million-year-old-fossil-of-sea-monster-found-in-desert","title":{"rendered":"36-million-year-old Fossil of \u201cSea Monster\u201d Found in Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/36-million-year-old-fossil-of-sea-monster-found-in-desert2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rodolfo Salas, chief of paleontology at Peru\u2019s National University of San Marcos, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unmsm.edu.pe\/noticias-y-eventos\/noticias\/noticia-detalle\/san-marcos-presenta-al-mundo-un-basilosaurio-que-habito-en-el-mar-peruano-hace-36-millones-de-anos?ftag=YHF4eb9d17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">said that the whale<\/a> was a \u201csea monster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most incredible thing is that the skull is in a very good state of preservation, it has complete teeth; it was a first-order predator, at the top of that time that fed on fish penguins; a sea monster just as they imagine it and we think it is a new species,\u201d Salas said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cOcucaje Predator,\u201d as the researchers dubbed it, was about 55 feet long and used its massive, powerful teeth to feed on tuna, sharks and schools of sardines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodolfo Salas, chief of paleontology at Peru\u2019s National University of San Marcos, said that the whale was a \u201csea monster.\u201d \u201cThe most incredible thing is that the skull is in a very good state of preservation, it has complete teeth; it was a first-order predator, at the top of that time that fed on fish [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137325","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=137325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}