{"id":5490,"date":"2008-07-10T01:27:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T07:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2008-07-10T01:27:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T07:27:24","slug":"the-flatfish-missing-link-was-found-good-on-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/07\/the-flatfish-missing-link-was-found-good-on-them\/","title":{"rendered":"The Flatfish Missing Link was Found, Good on Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not so much tracking that they have a &#8220;missing link&#8221; but of where this &#8220;lost&#8221; information was found. Sitting happily and unknown in a museum&#8217;s drawers. A <a href=\"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5135\">certain dinosaur<\/a> comes to mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;ve got there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed they don&#8217;t, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082971\/quotes\" class=\"external external_icon\">Indy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some odd-looking fish fossils discovered in the bowels of several European museums may help solve a lingering question about evolutionary theory, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 50 million-year-old fossils &#8212; which have one eye near the top of their heads &#8212; help explain how flatfish such as flounder, sole and halibut developed the strange but useful trait of having both eyes on one side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not so much tracking that they have a &#8220;missing link&#8221; but of where this &#8220;lost&#8221; information was found. Sitting happily and unknown in a museum&#8217;s drawers. A certain dinosaur comes to mind. &#8220;They don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;ve got there.&#8221; Indeed they don&#8217;t, Indy. Some odd-looking fish fossils discovered in the bowels of several European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[347,346,348,116],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-admin","category-science","tag-flatfish","tag-found","tag-museum-drawers","tag-proof-of-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}