{"id":2103,"date":"2026-07-24T01:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/new-giant-salamander-species-discovered-in-3-5-million-year-old-fossils\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T01:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:58:41","slug":"new-giant-salamander-species-discovered-in-3-5-million-year-old-fossils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/new-giant-salamander-species-discovered-in-3-5-million-year-old-fossils\/","title":{"rendered":"New giant salamander species discovered in 3.5-million-year-old fossils"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a warmer, wetter Kyushu and may have reached 1.1 meters in length. Its discovery hints that many more unknown giant salamanders could be hiding among fossils previously given the wrong classification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}