{"id":4287,"date":"2006-05-26T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T13:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2009-11-02T22:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T04:05:05","slug":"dracorex-hogwartsia-is-a-silly-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/dracorex-hogwartsia-is-a-silly-name\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dracorex hogwartsia&#8221; is a Silly Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/hogwartsdino.jpg\" alt=\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dracorex hogwartsia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" title=\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dracorex hogwartsia\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" width=\"167\" height=\"311\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/hogwartsdino.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/05\/hogwartsdino-161x300.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><strong>boingboing says:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A dragon-like dinosaur unearthed in South Dakota has been named &#8220;Dracorex hogwartsia&#8221; (Dragon King of Hogwarts) with the help of a group of kids at the Children&#8217;s Museum of Indianapolis. The name has received the blessing of JK Rowling, who says it will give her more cred with her &#8220;science-loving family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>discovery.com says:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe newly described horny-headed dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia lived about 66 million years ago in South Dakota, just a million years short of the extinction of all dinosaurs. But <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/briefs\/20060522\/hogwartsdino_din.html?source=rss\" class=\"external external_icon\">its flat, almost storybook-style dragon head has overturned everything paleontologists thought they knew about the dome-head dinos called pachycephalosaurs<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/05\/23\/dinosaur_species_nam.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">boingboing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>boingboing says: A dragon-like dinosaur unearthed in South Dakota has been named &#8220;Dracorex hogwartsia&#8221; (Dragon King of Hogwarts) with the help of a group of kids at the Children&#8217;s Museum of Indianapolis. The name has received the blessing of JK Rowling, who says it will give her more cred with her &#8220;science-loving family.&#8221; discovery.com says: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,70,17],"tags":[863,4945],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-dinosaurs","category-history","tag-dino-detritus","tag-dinosaurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}