{"id":25967,"date":"2025-06-11T18:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25967"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:00:37","slug":"fossils-found-in-1970s-are-most-recent-ancestor-of-tyrannosaurs-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/?p=25967","title":{"rendered":"Fossils found in 1970s are most recent ancestor of tyrannosaurs, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers identify new species named <em>Khankhuuluu mongoliensis<\/em> from skeletons unearthed in Mongolia<\/p>\n<p>Tyrannosaurs might evoke images of serrated teeth, massive bodies and powerful tails, but their most recent ancestor yet discovered was a slender, fleet-footed beast of rather more modest size.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the new species \u2013 identified from two partial skeletons \u2013 helps fill a gap in the fossil record between the small, early ancestors of tyrannosaurs and the huge predators that evolved later.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2025\/jun\/11\/tyrannosaurs-new-species-fossils-mongolia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers identify new species named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis from skeletons unearthed in Mongolia Tyrannosaurs might evoke images of serrated teeth, massive bodies and powerful tails, but their most recent ancestor yet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-without-rubric"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mongolianews.mn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}