{"id":2051,"date":"2024-08-23T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/colossal-sea-monster-unearthed-in-uk-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T09:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T09:01:36","slug":"colossal-sea-monster-unearthed-in-uk-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/colossal-sea-monster-unearthed-in-uk-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossal sea monster unearthed in UK &#8211; BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDMIFXW5QB0?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK.<\/p>\n<p>It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The 2m-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered and is giving new insights into this ancient predator.<\/p>\n<p>The skull will be featured in a special David Attenborough programme on BBC One on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#Palaeontology #SeaCreatures #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PDMIFXW5QB0\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, UK. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million years ago. The 2m-long fossil is one of the most complete specimens of its type ever discovered and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[356,15,169,1748,565,368,1749,354,1750,496,162],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-america","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-india-news","tag-news","tag-us-news","tag-usa","tag-usa-news","tag-world","tag-world-news","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}