{"id":6111,"date":"2018-05-30T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2018-07-10T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T16:40:03","slug":"ancient-reptile-revamps-lizard-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/ancient-reptile-revamps-lizard-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient reptile revamps lizard family tree <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil previously assigned to a more-inclusive group of ancient reptiles recently has been revealed to have features unique to the group of animals, called squamates, that today includes snakes and lizards. <em>Megachirella wachtleri,\u00a0<\/em>about 72 million years older than the next earliest-known true squamate,\u00a0increases understanding of the origin of squamates and other reptiles, and shows they\u00a0began\u00a0diversifying not long after the Permian\/Triassic mass extinction.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nature<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0May 30, 2018\u00a0<\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/press.nature.com\/?post_type=press_release&amp;p=114459\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from Nature Press)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/press.nature.com\/?post_type=press_release&amp;p=114459\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Video available<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0093-3\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>URL after publication<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corresponding author: <\/strong>Tiago Sim\u00f5es, University of Alberta &#8211;\u00a0<a>tsimoes@ualberta.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fossil previously assigned to a more-inclusive group of ancient reptiles recently has been revealed to have features unique to the group of animals, called squamates, that today includes snakes and lizards. Megachirella wachtleri,\u00a0about 72 million years older than the next earliest-known true squamate,\u00a0increases understanding of the origin of squamates and other reptiles, and shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1Az","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111","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=6111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6111\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}