{"id":133139,"date":"2025-07-20T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133139"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:00:14","slug":"chinese-pterosaurs-last-meal-feeds-dino-sized-diet-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=133139","title":{"rendered":"Chinese pterosaur\u2019s last meal feeds dino-sized diet debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists in China and Brazil have found the first evidence of a plant-eating pterosaur, the ancient flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs.<br \/>\nThe rare find sheds light on the mysterious diets of the creatures that ruled the skies before birds and renews a contentious debate among palaeontologists.<br \/>\n\u201cWe report the first evidence of stomach contents of a pterodactyloid pterosaur,\u201d the team said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Bulletin on July 1.<br \/>\nThe fossil of the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3318792\/dino-era-diet-debate-chinese-pterosaur-fossil-rewrites-menu-ancient-flying-reptile?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostScientists in China and Brazil have found the first evidence of a plant-eating pterosaur, the ancient flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs. The rare&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}