{"id":4199,"date":"2014-03-13T06:40:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2014-03-13T07:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T14:14:46","slug":"scientists-discover-diminutive-dinosaur-that-roamed-arctic-70-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/13\/scientists-discover-diminutive-dinosaur-that-roamed-arctic-70-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover diminutive dinosaur that roamed Arctic 70 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4235\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4235\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9612564.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4235\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Perot Museum of Nature and Science\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9612564.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9612564.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/9612564-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Perot Museum of Nature and Science<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that roamed the Arctic 70 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Nanuqsaurus (NA-nook-sore-us) hoglundi (hog-LUNDY) is a tiny cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex that lived in northern Alaska, close to the Yukon border on the Beaufort Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tony Fiorillo (fee-o-rillo) of the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Texas says the fossil fragments of the skull and jaw were found in what is known as the Prince Creek Formation.<\/p>\n<p>Fiorillo says the tiny tyrranosaur was about half the size of the T. rex, with a skull about 64 centimetres long and standing less than three metres high.<\/p>\n<p>His team believes the creature was smaller because it had to adapt to the arctic climate of the day, which was warmer and more heavily forested in the Cretaceous period.<\/p>\n<p>The finding is published in the latest edition of the scientific journal PLOS-ONE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that roamed the Arctic 70 million years ago. Nanuqsaurus (NA-nook-sore-us) hoglundi (hog-LUNDY) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}