{"id":1572,"date":"2007-12-26T20:20:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-26T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/26\/whale-ancestor-found\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T08:33:23","slug":"whale-ancestor-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/26\/whale-ancestor-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Whale ancestor found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked like. It seems that this was more a kind of small deer than big dog (as previously thought). Now, we have the missing link:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/loom\/2007\/12\/19\/whales_from_so_humble_a_beginn.php\"><img src='https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/indohyus500.jpg' alt='Indohyus by Carl Buell' \/><br \/>Indohyus by Carl Buell<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Greg Laden&#8217;s blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/12\/yet_another_missing_link_has.php\">A Whale of a Missing Link : Indohyus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>the loom: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/loom\/2007\/12\/19\/whales_from_so_humble_a_beginn.php\">Whales: From So Humble A Beginning&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Futura-Science : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futura-sciences.com\/fr\/sinformer\/actualites\/news\/t\/paleontologie\/d\/le-premier-ancetre-nageur-des-cetaces-etait-il-un-daim-miniature_14010\/\">Le premier anc\u00eatre nageur des c\u00e9tac\u00e9s \u00e9tait-il un daim miniature ?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sciences","category-whale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}