{"id":388,"date":"2017-05-03T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstar.bold-themes.com\/travel\/?p=388"},"modified":"2017-05-03T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T07:49:36","slug":"coal-mines-in-the-shangri-la-of-the-dinosaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/blog\/2017\/05\/03\/coal-mines-in-the-shangri-la-of-the-dinosaurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal Mines in The Shangri-la of The Dinosaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row paragraph-row\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph text-align-override-left\">Over the past\u00a021 years, 21\u00a0new species of dinosaurs\u00a0have been unearthed by scientists in the monument, leading some to call these lands a \u201cDinosaur Shangri-la,\u201d or a \u201cgeologic wonderland.\u201d Grand Staircase holds one of the richest collections\u00a0of fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period, which gives scientists and the public alike an unparalleled window into the dinosaurs that lived in these lands 10 million years ago. They included frilled dinosaurs, duck-billed dinosaurs and two new astounding tyrannosaurs (whose names translate to \u201cmonstrous murderer\u201d and \u201cking of gore,\u201d sure to draw awe from young dinosaur enthusiasts).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row paragraph-row\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph text-align-override-left\">And for historians and anthropologists, the region is a window into the human exploration of the West from the civilizations of the Southern Paiute and Navajo peoples to the expeditions of John Wesley Powell and the trails of the Mormons pioneers seeking refuge in the desert. Ghost towns, rock houses, cowboy camps and the renowned Hole-in-the-Rock Trail all are preserved within the boundaries of the monument. Grand Staircase\u2019s mind-twisting slot canyons draw adventurers from around the world. Peregrine falcons, bald eagles, mountains lions, and bears roam these lands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row paragraph-row\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph text-align-override-left\">In myriad ways, national monument protections for the rugged lands of Grand Staircase, managed under federal law well before Utah achieved statehood, have served us well. It\u2019s a success story for the Antiquities Act, the 1906 law that authorizes presidents to protect the nation\u2019s archaeological, scenic and scientific wonders as national monuments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Staircase-Escalante contains dinosaur fossils found nowhere else in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-america","tag-hightlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}