{"id":818705,"date":"2026-10-30T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818705\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T13:50:16","slug":"newly-named-dinosaur-honours-fossil-loving-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818705\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly named dinosaur honours fossil-loving dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A new species of dinosaur has been named after a dad who worked in the building where it was found in Surrey, in the south of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">William Proudlove was a manager of the Ewhurst brick and tile works, and was very interested in fossils himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An ancient dino fossil was found there in 2001 and donated to the Natural History Museum, who have recently looked at the fossil again and realised it&#8217;s actually a brand new species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They have now named it Paludohadros proudlovii &#8211; a type of iguanodontian, which were plant-eating dinosaurs known for having big spikes on their thumbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new species of dinosaur has been named after a dad who worked in the building where it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818705","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\/818705","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=818705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}