{"id":6439,"date":"2021-04-16T23:25:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6439"},"modified":"2021-04-16T23:25:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T23:25:14","slug":"300-million-year-old-godzilla-shark-gets-formal-namesouth-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=6439","title":{"rendered":"300 million-year-old \u2018Godzilla shark\u2019 gets formal nameSouth China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe 300 million-year-old shark\u2019s teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.The ancient chompers looked less like the spear-like rows of teeth of related species. They were squatter and shorter, less than an inch long, around 2cm.\u201cGreat for grasping and crushing prey rather than piercing prey,\u201d said discoverer John-Paul Hodnett, who was a graduate student when he unearthed the first fossils of the shark at a dig east of Albuquerque in 2013.3D models below created by \u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3129940\/300-million-year-old-godzilla-shark-gets-formal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostThe 300 million-year-old shark\u2019s teeth were the first sign that it might be a distinct species.The ancient chompers looked less like the spear-like rows of teeth&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439"}],"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=6439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}