{"id":38723,"date":"2022-03-10T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38723"},"modified":"2022-03-10T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:00:30","slug":"ancient-chinese-may-have-hunted-unique-giant-bronze-age-crocodile-species-to-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38723","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Chinese may have hunted \u2018unique\u2019 giant Bronze Age crocodile species to extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostCould humans have driven a Bronze Age crocodilian species in southern China into extinction just a few hundred years ago?That is the question being raised as a team of scientists studies the partially fossilised remains of two giant crocodiles unearthed in China\u2019s southern Guangdong province decades ago.The remains are from a hitherto unknown species of gharial, or fish-eating crocodile, and they also bear the marks of ritual beheading, according to the scientists. Discovered some half a\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3170017\/ancient-chinese-may-have-hunted-unique-giant-bronze-age?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 PostCould humans have driven a Bronze Age crocodilian species in southern China into extinction just a few hundred years ago?That is the question being&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38724,"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\/38723"}],"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=38723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}