{"id":375516,"date":"2021-01-26T15:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=375516"},"modified":"2021-01-26T15:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:26:01","slug":"dinosaur-or-lizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/dinosaur-or-lizard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinosaur or lizard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March, paleontologists announced an incredible discovery. The research team, led by Jingmai O&#8217;Connor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, published an article in <em>Nature <\/em>on the smallest dinosaur species ever identified: <em>Oculudentavis khaungraae<\/em>, described based on a skull found trapped in a 99-million-year-old fragment of amber found in Myanmar, Southeast Asia. After the article was published, which was reported by <em>Pesquisa<\/em> <em>FAPESP <\/em>at the time, some scientists questioned the classification, noting that the fossil has characteristics common to lizards. On July 22, O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s group retracted the article. A new fossil, not yet described, raised doubts about the initial classification of <em>O. khaungraae<\/em>. &#8220;We were wrong,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor told <em>Nature<\/em>. She maintains, however, that the specimen cannot be reclassified until data on the new fossil is published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, paleontologists announced an incredible discovery. The research team, led by Jingmai O&#8217;Connor of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing, China, published an article in Nature on the smallest dinosaur species ever identified: Oculudentavis khaungraae, described based on a skull found trapped in a 99-million-year-old fragment of amber found in Myanmar,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/dinosaur-or-lizard\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":375606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[255],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-375516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-paleontology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376110,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375516\/revisions\/376110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=375516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}