{"id":143993,"date":"2022-08-14T19:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-of-its-kind-armored-dinosaur-discovered-and-its-only-as-big-as-a-house-cat"},"modified":"2022-08-14T19:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T00:25:03","slug":"first-of-its-kind-armored-dinosaur-discovered-and-its-only-as-big-as-a-house-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/first-of-its-kind-armored-dinosaur-discovered-and-its-only-as-big-as-a-house-cat","title":{"rendered":"First-of-its-kind armored dinosaur discovered \u2014 and it\u2019s only as big as a house cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-of-its-kind-armored-dinosaur-discovered-and-its-only-as-big-as-a-house-cat2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered the remains of a small armored dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>Paleontologists announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armored dinosaur in southern Argentina, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2022\/aug\/11\/small-armoured-dinosaur-argentina-jakapil-kaniukura\" title=\"according to a report\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a report<\/a> by <em>The Guardian.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jakapil Kaniukura, the Cretaceous period dinosaur, would have been well-protected with rows of bony disc-shaped armor along its neck, back, and tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered the remains of a small armored dinosaur. Paleontologists announced the discovery of a previously unknown small armored dinosaur in southern Argentina, according to a report by The Guardian. Jakapil Kaniukura, the Cretaceous period dinosaur, would have been well-protected with rows of bony disc-shaped armor along its neck, back, and tail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}