{"id":174637,"date":"2024-06-16T19:12:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find\/"},"modified":"2024-06-16T19:12:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T17:12:13","slug":"zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwes-new-dinosaur-discovery-inside-the-find\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s New Dinosaur Discovery &#8211; Inside the Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Visitors to Lake Kariba &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest man-made lake, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe &#8211; come to enjoy the abundant wildlife, fine fishing or spectacular scenery. However, in 2017, our crew of palaeontologists came to Zimbabwe to hunt game of a different kind: dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Many of our discoveries are still under study, but the team has just announced its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.app.pan.pl\/article\/item\/app011002023.html\" rel=\"noopener\">first new dinosaur<\/a>, dubbed Musankwa sanyatiensis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"105\">At first sight, it&#8217;s unremarkable &#8211; just a few bones from a single hind leg&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406140519.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visitors to Lake Kariba &#8211; the world&#8217;s largest man-made lake, along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe &#8211; come to enjoy the abundant wildlife, fine fishing or spectacular scenery. However, in 2017, our crew of palaeontologists came to Zimbabwe to hunt game of a different kind: dinosaurs. Many of our discoveries are still under study, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,15760,15761,5171,257,254,421,7726],"class_list":["post-174637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dinosaur","tag-discovery","tag-find","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}