{"id":774669,"date":"2026-09-18T11:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774669\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:58:23","slug":"massive-rock-turns-out-to-be-a-set-of-ancient-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/774669\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive rock turns out to be a set of ancient teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Who among us hasn&#8217;t loved finding cool-looking rocks when we&#8217;re out on a walk or just digging around?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But imagine if the rock you happened to stumble upon was in fact a set of&#8230; giant teeth?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s what happened to geomorphologist Brigid Lynch, when she came across a set of mastodon molars in a creek bed in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a geologist, I&#8217;ve gone out and seen stuff in the field, but definitely nothing as exciting as this,&#8221; said Brigid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who among us hasn&#8217;t loved finding cool-looking rocks when we&#8217;re out on a walk or just digging around?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}