{"id":1041,"date":"2015-04-07T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2015-04-08T20:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T02:07:20","slug":"purgatorius-worlds-earliest-primate-httpwesterndigs-orgbones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/purgatorius-worlds-earliest-primate-httpwesterndigs-orgbones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatorius!  World&#8217;s earliest primate:  http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/bones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds\/"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-bones-on-finger.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-bones-on-finger-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Purgatorius-bones-on-finger\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Such tiny bones for such an amazing discovery!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our oldest #evolutionary ancestor was no bigger than a shrew and built for climbing through trees. \u00a0The bones of this tiny creature were found in Montana at a place called Purgatory Hill, therefore this early primate is named\u00a0<i>Purgatorius,\u00a0<\/i>and dates to 65 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1045\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"Purgatorius 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/bones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds\/\">http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/bones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such tiny bones for such an amazing discovery!\u00a0 Our oldest #evolutionary ancestor was no bigger than a shrew and built for climbing through trees. \u00a0The bones of this tiny creature were found in Montana at a place called Purgatory Hill, therefore this early primate is named\u00a0Purgatorius,\u00a0and dates to 65 million years ago. Read more at:\u00a0http:\/\/westerndigs.org\/bones-discovered-in-montana-are-of-the-worlds-earliest-primate-study-finds\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,19,66,94,96,210,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Purgatorius-bones-on-finger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}