{"id":900437,"date":"2026-04-20T13:22:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/new-megafauna-looked-like-spiky-30-pound-hamster\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:22:52","slug":"new-megafauna-looked-like-spiky-30-pound-hamster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/new-megafauna-looked-like-spiky-30-pound-hamster\/","title":{"rendered":"New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature It took 120 years to figure out the forgotten fossil belonged to an extinct giant echidna.<br \/>\nThe post New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/environment\/echidna-megafauna-discovery\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Margherita Bassi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature It took 120 years to figure out the forgotten fossil belonged to an extinct giant echidna. The post New megafauna looked like spiky, 30-pound hamster appeared first on Popular Science&#8230;Read MoreMargherita Bassi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24227,97423,536],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-looked","category-megafauna","category-science-nature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}