{"id":2960,"date":"2014-09-11T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2014-09-11T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:47:10","slug":"new-pterosaur-avatar-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-pterosaur-avatar-style\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pterosaur &#8211; Avatar style"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2961\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/figure1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2961\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2961\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/figure1.jpg\" alt=\"The ecological reconstruction of Ikrandraco avatar. (Credit: Chuang Zhao)\" width=\"432\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/figure1.jpg 432w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/figure1-300x147.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ecological reconstruction of Ikrandraco avatar. (Credit: Chuang Zhao)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers have found deposits of a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. This new species was named <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Ikrandraco avatar <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">for it\u2019s similarities to the \u2018ikran\u2019 flying creatures in the 2009 <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Avatar<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> movie and to a dragon (<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">draco<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">). The fossils were found in Northeastern China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/srep\/2014\/140911\/srep06329\/full\/srep06329.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Scientific Reports<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span>on\u00a0<strong>September 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Xiaolin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Alexander Kellner, Museu Nacional\/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found deposits of a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived about 120 million years ago. This new species was named Ikrandraco avatar for it\u2019s similarities to the \u2018ikran\u2019 flying creatures in the 2009 Avatar movie and to a dragon (draco). The fossils were found in Northeastern China. Original research paper\u00a0published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2961,"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":[26],"tags":[170,917,265],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tip","tag-biodiversity","tag-evolution","tag-fossil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/figure1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}