{"id":184990,"date":"2024-03-12T22:25:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/strange-new-prehistoric-bird-discovered-in-china-and-named-for-david-attenborough"},"modified":"2024-03-12T22:25:19","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T03:25:19","slug":"strange-new-prehistoric-bird-discovered-in-china-and-named-for-david-attenborough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/strange-new-prehistoric-bird-discovered-in-china-and-named-for-david-attenborough","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Strange\u2019 New Prehistoric Bird Discovered in China and Named for David Attenborough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FssBml8rLmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered species of prehistoric bird that lived 120 million years ago is shedding light on how modern birds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/new-parrot-like-dinosaur-roamed-the-same-habitat-as-t-rex-180983654\/\">evolved from their dinosaur ancestors<\/a>, according to a study published last week in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0195667124000405?via%3Dihub\">Cretaceous Research<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists who discovered the novel species gave it a name that highlights its uniqueness and pays tribute to the British naturalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/David-Attenborough\">David Attenborough<\/a>: <em>Imparavis attenboroughi<\/em>, which means \u201cAttenborough\u2019s strange bird\u201d in Latin.<\/p>\n<p>What intrigues researchers is that the proto-bird lacked teeth. While no birds have teeth today, this characteristic made the species abnormal among its contemporaries, as most prehistoric birds still had teeth and claws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered species of prehistoric bird that lived 120 million years ago is shedding light on how modern birds evolved from their dinosaur ancestors, according to a study published last week in the journal Cretaceous Research. The scientists who discovered the novel species gave it a name that highlights its uniqueness and pays tribute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184990","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}