{"id":17388,"date":"2023-11-25T02:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17388"},"modified":"2025-04-05T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T22:30:18","slug":"farlowichnus-rapidus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/farlowichnus-rapidus\/","title":{"rendered":"Farlowichnus rapidus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Farlowichnus rapidus<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new species of dinosaur\u00a0was a small carnivorous animal about the size of a modern-day seriema bird, or about 60-90 cm (2-3 feet) tall.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0a very fast reptile that ran across the ancient dunes.<\/li>\n<li>The fossilized dinosaur &#8220;trackways,&#8221;, were first found in the 1980s by Italian priest and paleontologist Giuseppe Leonardi<\/li>\n<li>It lived during the early\u00a0Cretaceous period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the Cretaceous Period?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In geologic time it\u00a0is the last of the three periods of\u00a0the Mesozoic Era.<\/li>\n<li>It began 145.0 million years ago and ended 66 million years ago; it followed the Jurassic Period and was succeeded by the Paleogene Period (the first of the two periods into which the Tertiary Period was divided).<\/li>\n<li>The Cretaceous is the\u00a0longest period of the Phanerozoic Eon.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Cretaceous Period began with Earth\u2019s land assembled essentially into two continents, Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south.<\/li>\n<li>These were almost completely separated by the equatorial Tethys seaway, and the various segments of Laurasia and Gondwana had already started to rift apart.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Mesozoic Era?<\/h3>\n<p>The Mesozoic Era is the second-to-last era of Earth&#8217;s geological history, lasting from about 252 to 66 million years ago, comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/scientists-identify-new-dinosaur-species-from-footprints-in-brazil\/article67569070.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scientists identify new dinosaur species from footprints in Brazil<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farlowichnus rapidus is a  new species of dinosaur which was  a small carnivorous animal .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17388","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\/17388","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=17388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}