{"id":155374,"date":"2026-07-30T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155374"},"modified":"2026-07-30T08:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T08:00:11","slug":"triassic-fish-for-lunch-chinese-fossil-reveals-oldest-preserved-reptile-stomach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=155374","title":{"rendered":"Triassic fish for lunch? Chinese fossil reveals oldest preserved reptile stomach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese-led team has analysed a 240 million-year-old fossil with the oldest known preserved stomach, liver and intestinal soft tissue in reptiles.<br \/>\nThe complete skeleton fossil has highly specialised body features that indicate it lived in the water, suggesting the marine colonisation of archosaurs was earlier and more extensive than previously believed.<br \/>\nThe fossil of the Austronaga minuta from the Early Triassic period also offers a \u201cunique opportunity\u201d to study how Triassic reptiles made the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3362341\/triassic-fish-lunch-chinese-fossil-reveals-oldest-preserved-reptile-stomach?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 PostA Chinese-led team has analysed a 240 million-year-old fossil with the oldest known preserved stomach, liver and intestinal soft tissue in reptiles. The complete&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\/155374"}],"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=155374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}