{"id":6635,"date":"2019-03-14T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2019-03-25T20:10:58","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T00:10:58","slug":"otters-leave-their-own-archaeological-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/otters-leave-their-own-archaeological-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Otters leave their own archaeological records <img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-019-39902-y\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Scientific Reports<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Published\u00a0March 14, 2019 14:00 EDT <\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/press.nature.com\/?post_type=press_release&amp;p=142081\" target=\"_blank\">News release<\/a> from Nature Research Press)<br \/>\nSea otters leave distinct wear patterns on the rocks that they use to break open hard-shelled food. The patterns, which can be recognised using archaeological techniques, could help trace locations of previous sea otter populations that are now extinct.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/press.nature.com\/?post_type=press_release&amp;p=142081\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Images and video available<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canadian co-author:<\/strong> Tim Tinker, Nhydra Ecological Consulting, Nova Scotia &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ttinker@nhydra.com\" target=\"_blank\">ttinker@nhydra.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific Reports Published\u00a0March 14, 2019 14:00 EDT (News release from Nature Research Press) Sea otters leave distinct wear patterns on the rocks that they use to break open hard-shelled food. The patterns, which can be recognised using archaeological techniques, could help trace locations of previous sea otter populations that are now extinct. Images and video [&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":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1J1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","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=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6639,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}