{"id":180530,"date":"2017-03-22T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/22\/no-that-was-margaret-thatcher-its-a-common-mistake\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T01:59:00","slug":"no-that-was-margaret-thatcher-its-a-common-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/22\/no-that-was-margaret-thatcher-its-a-common-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"No, That Was Margaret Thatcher, It&#8217;s a Common Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>OK, the headline on the BBC was, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-39305750\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 110%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Major shake-up suggests dinosaurs may have &#8216;UK origin&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/a>,&#8221; but I still think that it was Margaret Thatcher:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The first dinosaurs may have originated in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly in an area that is now Britain.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the conclusions of the first detailed re-evaluation of the relationships between dinosaurs for 130 years.<\/p>\n<p>It shows that the current theory of how dinosaurs evolved and where they came from may well be wrong. <\/p>\n<p>This major shake-up of dinosaur theory is published in this weeks&#8217;s edition of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature21700\">journal Nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The reassessment shows that the meat eating beasts, such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Velociraptor, have been wrongly classified in the dinosaur family tree.<\/p>\n<p>One of the implications is that dinosaurs first emerged 15 million years earlier than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>And the fossil evidence suggests that this origin may have occurred further north than current thinking suggests &#8211; possibly in an area that is now the UK, according to the new study&#8217;s lead author, Matthew Baron of Cambridge University.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that was my first thought when I read the headline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, the headline on the BBC was, &#8220;Major shake-up suggests dinosaurs may have &#8216;UK origin&#8217;,&#8221; but I still think that it was Margaret Thatcher: The first dinosaurs may have originated in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly in an area that is now Britain. This is one of the conclusions of the first detailed re-evaluation of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[655,390],"class_list":["post-180530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-paleontology","tag-snark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}