{"id":8034,"date":"2019-07-14T14:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=8034"},"modified":"2019-07-14T14:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T09:03:17","slug":"extinct-bird-had-an-extra-long-toe-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/extinct-bird-had-an-extra-long-toe-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Extinct bird had an extra long toe: study"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Researchers have discovered a bird foot from 99 million years ago that had a hyper-elongated third toe.This is the first time such a foot structure has been observed in birds either extinct or living<\/li><li>The researchers named it <strong>Elektorornis chenguangi<\/strong>. Elektronis means &#8220;amber bird&#8221;.It belongs to a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, the most abundant type of bird known from the Mesozoic era.<\/li><li>It is thought that Enantiornithines became extinct during the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event about 66 million years ago, along with dinosaurs.They have no living descendants.<\/li><li>Based on the fossil,the team estimated that the Elektorornis was smaller than a sparrow and it was arboreal which means it spent most of its time in trees as opposed to on the ground or in water.<\/li><li>Further,they have said that this bird may have used the long, sensitive toe to probe cracks in trees for insects and grubs.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered a bird foot from 99 million years ago that had a hyper-elongated third toe.This is the first time such a foot structure has been observed in birds either extinct or living The researchers named it Elektorornis chenguangi. Elektronis means &#8220;amber bird&#8221;.It belongs to a group of extinct birds called Enantiornithes, the most&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/extinct-bird-had-an-extra-long-toe-study\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Extinct bird had an extra long toe: study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4554],"class_list":["post-8034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-extinct-bird","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704625823},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034","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=8034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}