{"id":123454,"date":"2024-11-08T11:38:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123454"},"modified":"2024-11-08T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T04:38:14","slug":"creature-drops-a-big-baby-from-patagonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123454","title":{"rendered":"Creature Drops: A Big Baby From Patagonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Newsletterer&#8217;s Note: Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, links to other sites, and extra takes and bits from staffers. (You can change your newsletter preferences or upgrade your subscription at the <a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/account\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">My Account <\/a>page.) Today, we are inexplicably locked out of Sendgrid, so everyone gets a bonus bit from Sabs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Also, an announcement: Defector Trivia is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/defectormedia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">happening on Twitch today<\/a> at 5 p.m. ET. I would have put that in the newsletter, too.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>-Lauren Theisen<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n<p>If there\u2019s one thing we all need right now, it\u2019s a big baby. Maybe that\u2019s why they\u2019ve been having a moment: Moo Deng, Pesto, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itztherizzler\/video\/7369754396877458731?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=betches.com%2Frizzler-costco-guys-aj-big-justice-explained%2F&amp;referer_video_id=7369754396877458731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rizzler<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@sobrizzle\/video\/7369772085859732778?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121477481%2C121351166%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=iframe.nbcnews.com%2FDBAf19M%3F_showcaption%3Dtrue%26app%3D1&amp;referer_video_id=7369772085859732778\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fully Conscious Baby Who Wants To Go To The Four Seasons Orlando<\/a>. Now, science has served up another large youth in the form of a 161-million-year-old fossilized tadpole, which was recently described in a paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08055-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>. This tadpole is the oldest tadpole in the world, at least in terms of when it wriggled around on Earth. And as Asher Elbein beautifully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/30\/science\/oldest-tadpole-fossil-giant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imagines<\/a> in the <em>New York Times<\/em>, \u201cthis tadpole was long enough to fit in your typical hot dog bun.\u201d Can you imagine that? Drizzle a little ketchup, mustard, relish \u2026 BOOM! (Yes, this is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/aj-big-justice-rizzler-explained.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Big Justice slogan<\/a>, not a Rizzler slogan, but please allow me this.)<\/p>\n<p>Before this big baby frog swam on the scene, scientists knew frogs dated back to 217 million years ago, and the oldest tadpole on record, <em>Shomronella jordanica<\/em> was just 140 million years old. But in 2020, scientists in Patagonia came across a swath of rock studded with hundreds of fossilized frogs of the species <em>Notobatrachus degiustoi<\/em>. This find would have been remarkable in its own right, but when the researchers looked closer, they saw a single tadpole etched into the sandstone. It was a big fellow, more than six inches long and already showing parts of its hind legs and forelegs. It was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/oldest-known-tadpole-fossil-big-baby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exceptionally preserved<\/a>, with the dark spot of its eye peering out.<\/p>\n<p>This tadpole had signs of infancy and adulthood, making it the perfect preteen frog. It was actually the size of the rest of the adult frogs, which surprised scientists, as most tadpoles are smaller than the adults of their species. This new fossil confirms that metamorphosis was happening in the ancient ancestors of frogs.<\/p>\n<p>Two things can be true: It\u2019s comforting that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DB0jio5qjH5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">awkwardness of adolescence<\/a> has been around for hundreds of millions of years, and also when the Rizzler goes to high school, I will feel like the oldest person to have ever walked the Earth.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<h3 class=\"RelatedPost_heading__gPy_1\">Recommended<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/defector.com\/creature-drops-a-big-baby-from-patagonia\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsletterer&#8217;s Note: Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, links to other sites, and extra &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=123454\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}