{"id":86748,"date":"2019-01-17T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/opal-filled-fossils-reveal-timid-dog-size-dinosaur-that-lived-down-under"},"modified":"2019-01-17T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T23:42:46","slug":"opal-filled-fossils-reveal-timid-dog-size-dinosaur-that-lived-down-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/opal-filled-fossils-reveal-timid-dog-size-dinosaur-that-lived-down-under","title":{"rendered":"Opal-filled fossils reveal timid, dog-size dinosaur that lived down under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/opal-filled-fossils-reveal-timid-dog-size-dinosaur-that-lived-down-under2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Mike Poben, an opal buyer and and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/archaeology\/fossils\" target=\"_blank\">fossil<\/a> fanatic, bought a bucket of opal from an Australian mine, he was surprised to find to find what looked like an ancient tooth in the pile.<\/p>\n<p>Later, he also found a fossilized jaw piece \u2014 one that was shiny and glistening with opal.<\/p>\n<p>After showing the two opalized specimens to paleontologists in 2014, Poben learned that they were part of a previously unknown dog-size <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/archaeology\/dinosaurs\" target=\"_blank\">dinosaur<\/a> species, a new study finds. This dino lived about 100 million years ago in Australia, back when the landscape was lush and dotted with lakes. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/56559-photos-new-sauropod-in-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photos: Meet Wade, the Long-Necked Dinosaur from Down Under<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/opal-filled-fossils-reveal-timid-dog-size-dinosaur-that-lived-down-under\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/opal-filled-fossils-reveal-t...down-under<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mike Poben, an opal buyer and and fossil fanatic, bought a bucket of opal from an Australian mine, he was surprised to find to find what looked like an ancient tooth in the pile. Later, he also found a fossilized jaw piece \u2014 one that was shiny and glistening with opal. After showing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86748","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=86748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}