{"id":199197,"date":"2025-12-17T12:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199197"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:59:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:59:35","slug":"a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=199197","title":{"rendered":"A Lost Sea Cow World Resurfaces Beneath Qatar\u2019s Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 million years ago, ancient sea cows shaped the Arabian Gulf\u2019s seagrass meadows much like dugongs do today. A vast fossil bonebed in Qatar\u2014one of the richest ever found\u2014reveals a newly discovered miniature species, Salwasiren qatarensis, and paints a picture of a thriving Miocene ecosystem filled with marine life&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 million years ago, ancient sea cows shaped the Arabian Gulf\u2019s seagrass meadows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-qtr"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",777,442,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert-300x171.jpg",300,171,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert-768x437.jpg",640,364,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",640,364,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",777,442,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",777,442,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",777,442,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert.jpg",777,442,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/199197-a-lost-sea-cow-world-resurfaces-beneath-qatars-desert-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=29\" rel=\"category\">Qatar<\/a>","tag_info":"Qatar","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}