{"id":2235,"date":"2014-07-08T14:40:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2014-07-09T17:22:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:22:54","slug":"ancient-hedgehogs-and-tiny-tapirs-in-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ancient-hedgehogs-and-tiny-tapirs-in-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient hedgehogs and tiny tapirs in BC<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2216\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Driftwood_Canyon_jaw_small_file3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2216\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Driftwood_Canyon_jaw_small_file3.jpg\" alt=\"Teeth (above and middle) and side view of lower jaw (below) of Heptodon, an ancient cousin to tapirs, found in early Eocene (52 million-year-old) rocks of northern British Columbia. This extinct mammal was about half the size of today\u2019s tapirs. (Image by Jaelyn Eberle and coauthors.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Driftwood_Canyon_jaw_small_file3.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Driftwood_Canyon_jaw_small_file3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teeth (above and middle) and side view of lower jaw (below) of Heptodon, an ancient cousin to tapirs, found in early Eocene (52 million-year-old) rocks of northern British Columbia. This extinct mammal was about half the size of today\u2019s tapirs. (Image by Jaelyn Eberle and coauthors.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Newly described fossils from the eocene epoch &#8211; between 50 and 53 million years ago &#8211; \u00a0found in British Columbia\u2019s Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park provide evidence of hedgehogs and tapirs, two species that today are absent from North America. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fossils help fill an important gap as the <\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\">only other North American fossil localities yielding mammals of similar age are from the Arctic, or from much further south, in Wyoming and Colorado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02724634.2014.838175#.U707Go1dVGU\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology<\/span><em>\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 8, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Natalia Rybczynski, Canadian Museum of Nature<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #222222;\"> Jim Scott, University of Colorado, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly described fossils from the eocene epoch &#8211; between 50 and 53 million years ago &#8211; \u00a0found in British Columbia\u2019s Driftwood Canyon Provincial Park provide evidence of hedgehogs and tapirs, two species that today are absent from North America. The fossils help fill an important gap as the only other North American fossil localities yielding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[917,1865,265,1864,1863,1862],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-evolution","tag-extinction","tag-fossil","tag-mammals","tag-north-america","tag-paleontology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Driftwood_Canyon_jaw_small_file3.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-A3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}