{"id":27729,"date":"2024-07-29T21:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=27729"},"modified":"2024-07-29T21:02:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T01:02:59","slug":"no-dinosaurs-did-not-trudge-through-thick-rainforests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2024\/07\/no-dinosaurs-did-not-trudge-through-thick-rainforests\/","title":{"rendered":"No, Dinosaurs Did Not Trudge Through Thick Rainforests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoy reading stories describing the climate of different periods. This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/science-nature\/no-dinosaurs-did-not-trudge-through-thick-rainforests-180984730\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=editorial&amp;utm_term=7292024&amp;utm_content=new&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawEVCEBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbwWXKJmP1R4HdTqvzEW2XO4f3dZdh3HwEVicpA4tOqlOcloCQ0GfIbf7A_aem_s75R3FsZtBfL3EmbQf8xEQ\">story from <em>Smithsonian<\/em> magazine<\/a> discusses the types of plants that were present during the age of dinosaurs. It was interesting to me to read about how the asteroid impact that led to the end of the dinosaurs eventually led to the development of the first jungles dense with flowering plants. You might enjoy reading it too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/amazon-rainforest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/amazon-rainforest.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/amazon-rainforest.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/amazon-rainforest-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/04\/amazon-rainforest-198x138.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Governo do Acre c\/o: Gleilson Mira, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy reading stories describing the climate of different periods. This story from Smithsonian magazine discusses the types of plants that were present during the age of dinosaurs. It was interesting to me to read about how the asteroid impact that led to the end of the dinosaurs eventually led to the development of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":2741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27730,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27729\/revisions\/27730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}