{"id":143612,"date":"2022-08-04T22:26:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/paleontologists-discover-fossils-of-30-foot-prehistoric-marine-lizard-in-north-texas"},"modified":"2022-08-04T22:26:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T03:26:21","slug":"paleontologists-discover-fossils-of-30-foot-prehistoric-marine-lizard-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/paleontologists-discover-fossils-of-30-foot-prehistoric-marine-lizard-in-north-texas","title":{"rendered":"Paleontologists discover fossils of 30-foot prehistoric marine lizard in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paleontologists-discover-fossils-of-30-foot-prehistoric-marine-lizard-in-north-texas2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas recently unearthed the fossils of a mosasaur, a 30-foot marine lizard that existed around 80 million years ago, according to a report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2022\/08\/02\/fossils-of-30-foot-prehistoric-marine-lizard-unearthed-by-perot-paleontologists\/\">Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting in mid-July, scientists excavated parts of the mosasaur\u2019s skull, lower jawbones and several vertebrae from its spine near the fossil-rich North Sulphur River in North Texas. Stephen Kruse, an amateur enthusiast, told the Dallas Morning News that he first came across a piece of the creature\u2019s spine as he hiked near the river.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I turned this corner, he was just sitting there, coming right out of the wall,\u201d Kruse said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paleontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas recently unearthed the fossils of a mosasaur, a 30-foot marine lizard that existed around 80 million years ago, according to a report from the Dallas Morning News. Starting in mid-July, scientists excavated parts of the mosasaur\u2019s skull, lower jawbones and several vertebrae from its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143612","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=143612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}