{"id":171422,"date":"2021-09-12T00:31:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=171422"},"modified":"2021-09-12T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T19:01:38","slug":"jurassic-era-winged-lizard-unearthed-in-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/12\/jurassic-era-winged-lizard-unearthed-in-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic-Era &#8216;Winged Lizard&#8217; Unearthed In Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Santiago, Sep 11 (AFP): Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era &#8220;winged lizard&#8221; known as a pterosaur.<br \/>\nFossils of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago in what is today the Atacama desert, were unearthed in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They have now been confirmed to be of a rhamphorhynchine pterosaur &#8212; the first such creature to be found in Gondwana, the prehistoric supercontinent that later formed the southern hemisphere landmasses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researcher Jhonatan Alarcon of the University of Chile said the creatures had a wingspan of up to two meters, a long tail, and pointed snout.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We show that the distribution of animals in this group was wider than known to date,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The discovery was also &#8220;the oldest known pterosaur found in Chile,&#8221; the scientists reported in the scientific journal Acta Paleontologica Polonic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santiago, Sep 11 (AFP): Chilean scientists have announced the discovery of the first-ever southern hemisphere remains of a type of Jurassic-era &#8220;winged lizard&#8221; known as a pterosaur. Fossils of the dinosaur which lived some 160 million years ago in what is today the Atacama desert, were unearthed in 2009. They have now been confirmed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-171422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}