{"id":823,"date":"2004-02-03T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T18:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:33:27","slug":"paleontology-fossil-found-by-bus-driver-of-enormous-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=823","title":{"rendered":"paleontology: fossil found by bus driver &#8220;of enormous value&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The remains of the earliest-known land-living  animal have been discovered &#8212; not by a famous paleontologist but by  Scottish bus driver and amateur fossil hunter Mike Newman. Newman found  the tiny fossilized millipede in the Scottish seaside town of Stonehaven  and donated it to the National Museums of Scotland. Experts there and  from Yale University report in the January issue of the <em>Journal of  Paleontology<\/em> that the primitive breathing holes found on its body and  its approximate age of 428 million years make it the oldest  air-breathing animal yet found. &#8220;This fossil is of enormous scientific  value. It demonstrates that air-breathing animals lived on land over 20  million years earlier than we thought, and changes our understanding of  the landscape at that time,&#8221; study author Lyall Anderson of the National  Museums stated in a press release. The new species of millipede, <em> Pneumodesmus newmani,<\/em> has been named after its discoverer. &#8220;Well, that&#8217;s  pretty cool really,&#8221; Newman told the World Today radio program,  &#8220;because, you know, it&#8217;s going to have that name pretty much forever,  and it&#8217;s just not any old creature; it&#8217;s not like a shell or anything  like that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Discoveries column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 2\/03\/2004.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of the earliest-known land-living animal have been discovered &#8212; not by a famous paleontologist but by Scottish bus driver and amateur fossil hunter Mike Newman. Newman found the tiny fossilized millipede in the Scottish seaside town of Stonehaven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=823\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}