{"id":1008,"date":"2010-10-01T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2010-10-01T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:41:02","slug":"giant-fossils-show-penguin-colours-were-once-grey-and-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/giant-fossils-show-penguin-colours-were-once-grey-and-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant fossils show penguin colours were once grey and red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1009\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/penguins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1009\" title=\"penguins\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/penguins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/penguins.jpg 605w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/penguins-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/penguins-119x74.jpg 119w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Shutterstock <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Penguins only recently donned their snappy black and white coats, palaeontologists have discovered. <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An extinct penguin found with preserved evidence of feathers has revealed the famously tuxedo-clad creatures were once shades of reddish brown and grey.<\/p>\n<p>The 1.5 metre fossil of a giant ancient penguin was one of the largest species that has ever lived, and also had an exceptionally long beak with a grooved tip, <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/01\/science\/01penguin.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"blank\">the New York Times<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made in Peru in an area known to scientists as having a dense collection of giant penguin fossils.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\" http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/10\/01\/science\/01penguin.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"blank\">[New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penguins only recently donned their snappy black and white coats, palaeontologists have discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,45,6,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-environment","category-nature","category-palaeontology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}