{"id":40687,"date":"2022-03-28T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40687"},"modified":"2022-03-28T16:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-28T16:00:26","slug":"beaking-news-chinese-fossil-shows-owls-rejected-night-for-fun-in-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=40687","title":{"rendered":"Beaking news: Chinese fossil shows owls \u2018rejected night for fun in the sun\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese-led research team have made what they say is the first discovery of a fossil skeleton of an owl that lived more than six million years ago and was active in daytime.Most owl species are active at night, but a few are diurnal \u2013 active during the day and resting at night.The researchers analysed eye bones from the fossil \u2013 found in China near the Tibetan Plateau \u2013 alongside those of other birds and reptiles. They found that the extinct owl was a member of the Surniini group, which\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3172182\/beaking-news-chinese-fossil-shows-owls-rejected-night-fun-sun?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 research team have made what they say is the first discovery of a fossil skeleton of an owl that lived more than&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":40688,"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\/40687"}],"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=40687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}