{"id":35627,"date":"2018-11-01T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35627"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:08:46","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:38:46","slug":"ancient-species-of-giant-sloth-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ancient-species-of-giant-sloth-discovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient species of giant sloth discovered:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/ancient-species-of-giant-sloth-discovered\/article19513023.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ancient species of giant sloth discovered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mexican scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Context:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mexican scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Explanation: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The remains were found in 2010, but were so deep inside the water-filled sinkhole that researchers were only gradually able to piece them together. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists have so far hauled up the skull, jawbone, and a mixed bag of vertebrae, ribs, claws and other bones, but the rest of the skeleton remains some 50 metres under water. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have named the new species Xibalbaonyx oviceps . <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An initial analysis suggests that the sloth lived between 10,647 and 10,305 years ago, an era when giant creatures of all kinds roamed the earth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient species of giant sloth discovered: Mexican scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago and died at the bottom of a sinkhole. Context: Mexican scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a previously unknown species of giant sloth that lived 10,000 years ago&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ancient-species-of-giant-sloth-discovered\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ancient species of giant sloth discovered:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704845109},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}