{"id":320833,"date":"2023-12-11T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=320833"},"modified":"2023-12-11T11:19:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T10:19:43","slug":"biologists-from-the-university-of-warsaw-and-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-discovered-bones-of-extinct-animals-from-240-million-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/biologists-from-the-university-of-warsaw-and-the-polish-academy-of-sciences-discovered-bones-of-extinct-animals-from-240-million-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologists from the University of Warsaw and the Polish Academy of Sciences discovered bones of extinct animals from 240 million years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The scientific team, which included researchers from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw (UW) and the Institute of Palaeobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has made a discovery of bones belonging to extinct animal species from around 240 million years ago. The specimens were found in the Upper Silesian village of Miedary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the appearance of the dinosaurs, the areas studied included a bay of tropical sea, at the bottom of which the bones of at least twenty-four species of fish, amphibians and reptiles were preserved. The researchers discovered more than 1,000 bones of extinct animals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of these were previously unknown from Poland, and some have not yet been found anywhere in the world. &#8220;Among other things, we discovered the remains of a crocodile-like Mastodonsaurus, a fish-eating as yet unnamed armoured reptile and an aquatic predator called Jaxtasuchus&#8221;, said Dr Mateusz Ta\u0142anda from the UW.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scientific team, which included researchers from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Warsaw (UW) and the Institute of Palaeobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, has made a discovery of bones belonging to extinct animal species from around 240 million years ago. The specimens were found in the Upper Silesian village of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":320710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320845,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320833\/revisions\/320845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}