{"id":14767,"date":"2023-09-15T03:03:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14767"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:19:12","slug":"pampaphoneus-biccai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pampaphoneus-biccai\/","title":{"rendered":"Pampaphoneus biccai"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pampaphoneus biccai:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It belongs to the early therapsid clade <strong>called dinocephalians.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lived just before the largest extinction event in the history of Earth. That event eliminated 86 per cent of all animal species across the globe.<\/li>\n<li>Before the extinction event, dinocephalians were one of the major groups of large terrestrial animals that thrived on land.<\/li>\n<li>They were medium to large-sized creatures with both <strong>carnivorous and herbivorous representatives.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u00a0They had thick cranial bones, which led to the group&#8217;s name which translates to &#8220;terrible head&#8221; in Greek.<\/li>\n<li>These animals are rare in other parts of the world but <strong>well-known in South Africa and Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the only known species in Brazil.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Dinocephalians?<\/h3>\n<p>Dinocephalians, also known as Dinocephalia, were a group of extinct prehistoric reptiles that lived during the Permian period, approximately 290 to 260 million years ago. They belong to a larger group called Therapsida, which also includes the ancestors of modern mammals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/science\/pampaphoneus-biccai-dinosaur-predator-8937978\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The 265-million-year-old fossil belongs to the oldest, largest South American predator before dinosaurs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pampaphoneus biccai  belongs to the early therapsid clade called dinocephalians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14768,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}