{"id":5544,"date":"2014-12-02T08:41:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2014-11-17T08:41:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T13:41:32","slug":"some-more-evolutionary-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/some-more-evolutionary-diversion\/","title":{"rendered":"some more evolutionary diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/a\/a8\/4anteater.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">4anteaterCC BY-SA 3.0 Sandip kumar &#8211; Own work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I dreamed I was walking in the desert, and came across and giant armadillo.\u00a0 Only it wasn&#8217;t really an armadillo.\u00a0 It was more like some ancient plated dinosaur predecessor of an armadillo, as big as a medium sized dog with a long armored tail that stretched suspended over the arid ground as the animal walked.<\/p>\n<p>It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_pangolin\">pangolin<\/a>.\u00a0 In the same order,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Xenarthra\"> Xenarthra,<\/a> with armadillos, sloths and anteaters, pangolins are solitary, nocturnal and eat ants and termites.\u00a0 They&#8217;re also threatened because their armor plates are thought to be of medicinal value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dreamed I was walking in the desert, and came across and giant armadillo.\u00a0 Only it wasn&#8217;t really an armadillo.\u00a0 It was more like some ancient plated dinosaur predecessor of an armadillo, as big as a medium sized dog with a long armored tail that stretched suspended over the arid ground as the animal walked.&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/02\/some-more-evolutionary-diversion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">some more evolutionary diversion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10509,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/the-prehistory-of-solar-panels\/","url_meta":{"origin":5544,"position":0},"title":"The prehistory of solar panels","author":"leems","date":"March 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"George Cove\u2019s third solar panel. 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