{"id":155881,"date":"2023-01-20T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/when-being-larger-in-size-in-earths-past-may-have-led-to-extinction"},"modified":"2023-01-20T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T23:22:20","slug":"when-being-larger-in-size-in-earths-past-may-have-led-to-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/when-being-larger-in-size-in-earths-past-may-have-led-to-extinction","title":{"rendered":"When Being Larger in Size in Earth\u2019s Past May Have Led to Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-being-larger-in-size-in-earths-past-may-have-led-to-extinction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When the bird on the left died off 65 million years ago, why did the one on the right thrive?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Janavis, a beak-toothed bird died while another species called the Wonderchicken survived. Could being smaller explain why the latter lived?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the bird on the left died off 65 million years ago, why did the one on the right thrive? Janavis, a beak-toothed bird died while another species called the Wonderchicken survived. Could being smaller explain why the latter lived?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155881","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}