{"id":4672,"date":"2016-03-09T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:00:29","slug":"solving-the-disappearance-of-the-ichthyosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/solving-the-disappearance-of-the-ichthyosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Solving the Disappearance of the Ichthyosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4673\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Image-1-1024x706.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4673\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4673\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Image-1-1024x706-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"wo ichthyosaurs (Pervushovisaurus bannovkensis) wandering in an artist\u2019s impression. (Image credit: Andrey Atuchin)\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Image-1-1024x706-300x206.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Image-1-1024x706.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two ichthyosaurs (<em>Pervushovisaurus bannovkensis<\/em>) wandering in an artist\u2019s impression. (Image credit: Andrey Atuchin)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like reptile, ruled the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs, but then disappeared from the fossil record. Now new research seems to have figured out why. Their demise appears to be the result of climate change and a slow rate of evolution. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ichthyosaurs became extinct 90 million years ago, 28 million years before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature17181.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by <em>Nature Communications\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a08<\/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\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valentin Fischer, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ichthyosaur, a dolphin-like reptile, ruled the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs, but then disappeared from the fossil record. Now new research seems to have figured out why. Their demise appears to be the result of climate change and a slow rate of evolution. Ichthyosaurs became extinct 90 million years ago, 28 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4673,"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":[170,171,917,1865],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-evolution","tag-extinction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Image-1-1024x706.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","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=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4680,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/4680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}