{"id":64817,"date":"2012-11-07T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=64817"},"modified":"2012-11-07T09:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T14:42:22","slug":"say-hello-to-sauron-the-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/11\/07\/64817-say-hello-to-sauron-the-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"Say hello to Sauron the dinosaur!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Say hello to <em>Sauroniops pachytholus<\/em>. The name means &#8216;eye of Sauron&#8217; in Greek, and it&#8217;s a newly announced species of dinosaur that was identified from a single fossil fragment of part of its upper skull found in the Kem Kem region of south-east Morocco in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>As big as a <i>Tyrannosaurus rex<\/i>, the beast stalked North Africa around 95 million years ago, according to a study published recently in the journal <b>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>That fossil included only part the upper skull\u2014including the eye socket, study leader Andrea Cau, of the Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini in Bologna, Italy, said by email. &#8220;The idea of a predator that is physically known only as its fierce eye reminded me of Sauron, in particular as depicted in Peter Jackson&#8217;s movies,&#8221; Cau explained. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Ringer Caradoc for the heads-up on the news.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/11\/121106-sauron-new-dinosaur-lord-of-the-rings-science-t-rex\/?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ng%2FNews%2FNews_Main+%28National+Geographic+News+-+Main%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say hello to Sauroniops pachytholus. The name means &#8216;eye of Sauron&#8217; in Greek, and it&#8217;s a newly announced&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":64818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[852,1771],"class_list":["post-64817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sauron","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/article-2229159-15E501CB000005DC-660_634x585.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-gRr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64820,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64817\/revisions\/64820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}