{"id":67430,"date":"2024-10-24T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T09:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/24\/hong-kong-first-dinosaur-fossils-found-port-island"},"modified":"2024-10-24T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T11:11:12","slug":"hong-kong-unearths-its-first-ever-dinosaur-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67430","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong unearths its first ever dinosaur fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Official hails discovery \u2018of great significance\u2019 on Port Island, with remains of as yet unknown species to go on display in shopping district on Friday<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong officials say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time, on a remote and uninhabited island.<\/p>\n<p>The fossils were part of a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, about 145m to 66m years ago, the government said in a statement. They will need to conduct further studies to confirm the species of the dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/24\/hong-kong-first-dinosaur-fossils-found-port-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Official hails discovery \u2018of great significance\u2019 on Port Island, with remains of as yet unknown species to go on display in shopping district on FridayHong Kong officials say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time, on a re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3089,1504,48,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-evolution","category-fossils","category-hong-kong","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67436,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67430\/revisions\/67436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}