{"id":425,"date":"2021-03-05T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/?p=425"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:35:47","slug":"reassembling-skeletons-a-paleontology-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/reassembling-skeletons-a-paleontology-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Reassembling Skeletons: A Paleontology Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When paleontologists discover fossils, often they have to make educated guesses about what the dinosaur looked like, where it lived, what it ate, whether it was a predator or prey species, etc. Sometimes, the skeletons will be incomplete or mismatched. Today, we tried to assemble a skeleton based on the fossils that paleontologists founds. Check out all of our different results!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-426\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-1-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-1.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-427\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-3-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-3.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-428\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-4-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-4-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-4-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-4.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-429\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-2-81x108.jpg 81w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/skeleton-2.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of what the fossil looked like when it was uncovered.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-430\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-Scaphognathus_crassirostris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-Scaphognathus_crassirostris.jpg 220w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-Scaphognathus_crassirostris-122x108.jpg 122w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Based on educated guesses, paleontologists think this dinosaur may have looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-431\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-ScaphognDB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-ScaphognDB.jpg 220w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/files\/2021\/03\/220px-ScaphognDB-155x108.jpg 155w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When paleontologists discover fossils, often they have to make educated guesses about what the dinosaur looked like, where it lived, what it ate, whether it was a predator or prey species, etc. Sometimes, the skeletons will be incomplete or mismatched. Today, we tried to assemble a skeleton based on the fossils that paleontologists founds. Check &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/reassembling-skeletons-a-paleontology-mystery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reassembling Skeletons: A Paleontology Mystery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/wardk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}