{"id":4316,"date":"2015-09-01T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2015-09-02T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:52:46","slug":"new-species-of-giant-sea-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/new-species-of-giant-sea-scorpion\/","title":{"rendered":"New species of giant sea scorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4317\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4317\" class=\"wp-image-4317\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web-1024x643.jpg\" alt=\"An artist\u2019s impression of Pentecopterus. (Image credit: Patrick Lynch - Yale University)\" width=\"636\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web-1024x643.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s impression of Pentecopterus. (Image credit: Patrick Lynch &#8211; Yale University)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An ancient species of giant sea scorpion, Pentecopterus, which could grow up to six feet in length, has been identified after examining more than 150 fossil specimens of both adult and juvenile specimens.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The fossils were uncovered in Iowa and lived approximately 460 million years ago. The species likely lived in a shallow mix of fresh and salt water, that was likely inhospitable to other marine life at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.pnas.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.1513514112\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in<em> BMC Evolutionary Biology<\/em> on <strong>August 31<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>James C Lamsdell, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, Conneticut<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ancient species of giant sea scorpion, Pentecopterus, which could grow up to six feet in length, has been identified after examining more than 150 fossil specimens of both adult and juvenile specimens. The fossils were uncovered in Iowa and lived approximately 460 million years ago. The species likely lived in a shallow mix of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4317,"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":[170,265],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-fossil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/98181_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-17C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}