{"id":4369,"date":"2019-09-13T23:43:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2019-09-13T23:43:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:13:36","slug":"cryodrakon-boreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/cryodrakon-boreas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryodrakon Boreas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Current Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Paleontologists have identified a new species, named Cryodrakon boreas, and declared that it could be one of the largest flying animals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cryodrakon (cold dragon) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived over 77 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period in what is now Canada.<\/li>\n<li>It contains a single species, Cryodrakon boreas, recovered from the Dinosaur Park Formation (in Alberta, Canada).<\/li>\n<li>With a wingspan of over 10 metres, it is believed to have flown over the heads of dinosaurs.<\/li>\n<li>The study by researchers from the Queen Mary University of London has concluded that the remains belong to a new species, which is also the first pterosaur to be discovered in Canada.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Current Affairs Paleontologists have identified a new species, named Cryodrakon boreas, and declared that it could be one<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4370,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}