{"id":17515,"date":"2017-12-01T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T01:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/12\/01\/pterosaurs-record-haul-of-egg-fossils-from-ancient-flying-reptile-found-in-china\/"},"modified":"2017-12-01T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T01:15:10","slug":"pterosaurs-record-haul-of-egg-fossils-from-ancient-flying-reptile-found-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=17515","title":{"rendered":"Pterosaurs: record haul of egg fossils from ancient flying reptile found in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists unearth 215 eggs with preserved embryos of the fish-eating Hamipterus tianshanensis, providing fresh understanding of dinosaur\u2019s cousin A discovery in northwestern China of hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs is providing fresh understanding of the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, including evidence that their babies were born flightless and needed parental care. Scientists said on Thursday they unearthed 215 eggs of the fish-eating Hamipterus tianshanensis \u2013 a species whose adults had a crest atop an elongated skull, pointy teeth and a wingspan of more than 11ft (3.5m) \u2013 including 16 eggs containing partial embryonic remains. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2017\/dec\/01\/pterosaurs-record-haul-egg-fossils-ancient-flying-reptile-china\" target=\"_blank\">Pterosaurs: record haul of egg fossils from ancient flying reptile found in China<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists unearth 215 eggs with preserved embryos of the fish-eating Hamipterus tianshanensis, providing fresh understanding of dinosaur\u2019s cousin A discovery in northwestern China of hundreds of fossilized pterosaur eggs is providing fresh understanding of the flying reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs, including evidence that their babies were born flightless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}