{"id":75640,"date":"2018-01-29T17:02:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/holy-grail-of-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-in-egyptian-desert"},"modified":"2018-01-29T17:02:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T01:02:35","slug":"holy-grail-of-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-in-egyptian-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/holy-grail-of-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-in-egyptian-desert","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Holy Grail\u2019 of dinosaur fossils discovered in Egyptian desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/holy-grail-of-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-in-egyptian-desert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new species of dinosaur has been uncovered in the Egyptian desert, a rare discovery in a part of the world not known for dino fossils.<\/p>\n<p>The huge animal, which was roughly the size of a school bus, is an \u201cincredible discovery,\u201d scientists said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-017-0455-5\">new study<\/a> that was published Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was the Holy Grail \u2014 a well-preserved dinosaur from the end of the age of dinosaurs in Africa \u2014 that we paleontologists had been searching for for a long, long time,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiemnh.org\/researcher\/staff-directory\/matthew-lamanna\/\">Matt Lamanna<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegiemnh.org\/\">Carnegie Museum of Natural History<\/a> in Pittsburgh, one of the authors of the study.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/01\/29\/holy-grail-dinosaur-fossils-discovered-egyptian-desert\/1075419001\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/science\/2018\/01\/29\/holy-...075419001\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of dinosaur has been uncovered in the Egyptian desert, a rare discovery in a part of the world not known for dino fossils. The huge animal, which was roughly the size of a school bus, is an \u201cincredible discovery,\u201d scientists said in a new study that was published Monday. \u201cThis was the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75640","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=75640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}