{"id":83225,"date":"2018-10-02T13:23:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-may-have-uncovered-an-entire-new-whale-species"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:23:05","slug":"scientists-may-have-uncovered-an-entire-new-whale-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scientists-may-have-uncovered-an-entire-new-whale-species","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have uncovered an entire new whale species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/assets\/CNN_viral_player.swf?site=cnn&profile=viral&context=facebook&videoId=undefined\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b data-type=\u201d sourceText\u201d>(CNN) \u2014 <\/b> Scientists believe a fossil found at a landfill in California belongs to an extinct species of whale that lived between 4 and 7 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The seven-ton fossil was unearthed in June during a construction excavation at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County Waste &amp; Recycling <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.ocgov.com\/civicax\/filebank\/blobdload.aspx?BlobID=77827\" target=\"_blank\">announced in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A paleontologist with Paleo Solutions Lab, a company employed by the County of Orange \u2014paleontologists must monitor construction excavations under California law \u2014 was working at the site when a large bone was spotted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www-m.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/26\/us\/whale-fossil-found-in-california\/\">https:\/\/www-m.cnn.com\/2018\/09\/26\/us\/whale-fossil-found-in-california\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) \u2014 Scientists believe a fossil found at a landfill in California belongs to an extinct species of whale that lived between 4 and 7 million years ago. The seven-ton fossil was unearthed in June during a construction excavation at the Prima Deshecha landfill in San Juan Capistrano, Orange County Waste &amp; Recycling announced in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}