{"id":31445,"date":"2016-10-27T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-identify-fossilized-dinosaur-brain-tissue-for-first-time-ever"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:06:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:06:53","slug":"scientists-identify-fossilized-dinosaur-brain-tissue-for-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-identify-fossilized-dinosaur-brain-tissue-for-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"Scientists identify fossilized dinosaur brain tissue for first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-identify-fossilized-dinosaur-brain-tissue-for-first-time-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A brown pebble discovered on an English beach more a decade ago is actually the world\u2019s first known example of a fossilized dinosaur brain, scientists have confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable find is thought to have come from a large plant-eater such as the Iguanodon, which walked the earth about 133 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed the creature must have died near water with its head buried in sediment in a swamp or boggy ground, allowing its brain to be \u201cpickled\u201d and preserved.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/10\/27\/scientists-identify-fossilized-dinosaur-brain-tissue-for-first-time-ever.html\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/2016\/10\/27\/scientists-identif...-ever.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brown pebble discovered on an English beach more a decade ago is actually the world\u2019s first known example of a fossilized dinosaur brain, scientists have confirmed. The remarkable find is thought to have come from a large plant-eater such as the Iguanodon, which walked the earth about 133 million years ago. It is believed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65906,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31445\/revisions\/65906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}