{"id":5521,"date":"2017-05-02T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2017-05-02T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:00:36","slug":"egyptian-fossil-leads-to-discovery-of-new-extinct-carnivore-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/egyptian-fossil-leads-to-discovery-of-new-extinct-carnivore-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian fossil leads to discovery of new extinct carnivore species"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5522\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5522\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Hyaenodont skull. (Image by Matthew Borths)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web-268x268.jpg 268w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Hyaenodont skull. <em>(Image by Matthew Borths)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 34-million-year-old Egyptian fossil has identified a new member of the ancient carnivore species, hyaenodonts. Researchers gave the new species the name <em>Masrasector nananubis<\/em>, referring to Anubis, the dog-headed Egyptian god of mummification and afterlife. <em>Masrasector nananubis<\/em> were likely fast-moving, terrestrial meat-eaters about the size of a modern skunk. This is a significant discovery to help find out more about the lifestyles of ancient hyaenodonts, and figure out why they became extinct when the modern-day dogs, cats and hyenas moved into Africa.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew R. Borths, Erik R. Seiffert<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Matthew Borths, Ohio University, Email: borths.1@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0173527\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published in<em> PLOS One<\/em> on April 19, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-million-year-old Egyptian fossil has identified a new member of the ancient carnivore species, hyaenodonts. Researchers gave the new species the name Masrasector nananubis, referring to Anubis, the dog-headed Egyptian god of mummification and afterlife. Masrasector nananubis were likely fast-moving, terrestrial meat-eaters about the size of a modern skunk. This is a significant discovery to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5522,"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":[917,1938,2958],"class_list":["post-5521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-evolution","tag-fossils","tag-hyaenodonts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/138113_web.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1r3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}