{"id":2567,"date":"2010-06-22T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T02:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2014-07-14T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:29:54","slug":"pelicans-are-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/22\/pelicans-are-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelicans Are Perfect!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/I-AM-READY-FOR-MY-FISH-NOW-MR-DEMILLE.jpg\" title=\"I AM READY FOR MY FISH NOW MR DEMILLE - Caitlin Burke, in London, UK\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2568\" \/><br \/><i>Pelicans receive fish at the London Zoo<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Pelicans have been perfect since the early Oligocene, according to a newly published analysis of a fossilized bill, and partial skull and neck. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn19071-pelican-fossil-poses-evolutionary-puzzle.html\" target=\"_blank\">The study&#8217;s lead author, Antoine Louchart, doesn&#8217;t actually want to commit to that interpretation<\/a>, but the 30-million-year old fossil he reports on is so similar to today&#8217;s pelican species that it would be classified in the <i>Pelecanus<\/i> genus. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/973600401h70hm74\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Study at <\/i>J Ornithol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pelicans receive fish at the London Zoo Pelicans have been perfect since the early Oligocene, according to a newly published analysis of a fossilized bill, and partial skull and neck. The study&#8217;s lead author, Antoine Louchart, doesn&#8217;t actually want to commit to that interpretation, but the 30-million-year old fossil he reports on is so similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[148,488,867,909,1040,1336],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neat-stuff","category-pictures","tag-birds","tag-fossil","tag-oligocene","tag-pelicans","tag-rupelian","tag-zoo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4OKzG-Fp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5038,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions\/5038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caitlinburke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}