{"id":100715,"date":"2025-08-27T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100715\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:50:07","slug":"new-punk-dinosaur-discovery-has-experts-rethinking-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100715\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;punk dinosaur&#8217; discovery has experts rethinking evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck &#8211; a bit like a massive hedgehog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The species lived 165 million years ago, and is the oldest example of a group of armoured dinosaurs called ankylosaurs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The elaborateness and spikiness of the animal found in Morocco has come as a shock to experts, who now have to rethink how these armoured dinosaurs evolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists have discovered a bizarre armoured dinosaur which had metre-long spikes sticking out from its neck &#8211; a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,49454,128],"class_list":["post-100715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-newsradio","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}