{"id":6307,"date":"2020-02-13T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=6307"},"modified":"2020-02-13T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:48:36","slug":"thanatotheristes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/thanatotheristes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanatotheristes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/thous.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6308\" src=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/thous.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/thous.jpg 318w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/thous-150x75.jpg 150w, https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/thous-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists have found that a dinosaur fossil, found in Alberta in Canada in 2010, belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have named it Thanatotheristes, which means \u201creaper of death\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Tyrannosaurs were one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs to have ever lived, with very large and high skulls, and the best known among them is the Tyrannosaurus rex, celebrated in the Jurassic Park series.<\/li>\n<li>The 79-million-year-old fossil that the researchers have found is the oldest tyrannosaur known from northern North America.<\/li>\n<li>The fossil specimen is important to understand the Late Cretaceous period, which is the period when tyrannosaurs roamed the Earth.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology Why in news? Scientists have found that a dinosaur fossil, found in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"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":[123,42,69],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-6307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-science-and-technology","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307","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=6307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6307\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}