{"id":51507,"date":"2015-06-18T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/the-incredible-shrinking-dinosaur.html"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:28:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T21:28:34","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/the-incredible-shrinking-dinosaur.html","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Shrinking Dinosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some new research &#8212; and cross-discipline studies &#8212; indicates that the evolution of dinosaurs to birds was not quite as abrupt as seemed to be the case when the theory was first raised. Not only are some of the connecting traits (e.g., feathers) present far further back than originally known, but some of the physiological changes turn out to be a lot less complex than they first appear to the naked eye.  Coolness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/jKTefxcLw1EtHA04fQtUO-YFAVVADZcLaVI6oQRlZyhAe0ACFNezoLyqAy9nXx65t30TASxRahqiUuti5D4fa5ns86-Qlcr4L4Nn8DspvvBgc3s68aAETtpmDGB7PLYYBKBZrpvjSLNwBQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-dinosaurs-shrank-and-became-birds'>How Dinosaurs Shrank and Became Birds<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nModern birds appeared to emerge in a snap of evolutionary time. But new research illuminates the long series of evolutionary changes that made the transformation possible\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/8FEaFBsq136'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some new research &#8212; and cross-discipline studies &#8212; indicates that the evolution of dinosaurs to birds was not quite as abrupt as seemed to be the case when the theory was first raised. Not only are some of the connecting traits (e.g., feathers) present far further back than originally known, but some of the physiological &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/18\/the-incredible-shrinking-dinosaur.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Incredible Shrinking Dinosaur&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51267,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/what-happened-to-the-dinosaurs-pretty-certain-not-this.html","url_meta":{"origin":51507,"position":0},"title":"What happened to the dinosaurs? 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