{"id":1826,"date":"2008-06-01T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2008-06-01T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-01T22:19:59","slug":"dontknowsaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"Dontknowsaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>fter seeing a picture at Reddit (<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/128\/414998399_4b1b06b1b8_b.jpg\">a biblical person riding a dinosaur<\/a>) with a long winding <a href=\"http:\/\/reddit.com\/info\/6lk69\/comments\/\">comment thread<\/a>, I found myself looking for statistics about fossil finds. More or less, I&#8217;m looking for the answer to the question of &#8220;Which continent has the most fossil finds?&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>The web is not particularly helpful: Enchanted Learning has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/\">couple of pages<\/a> dedicated to specific dinosaur finds per continent: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/\">North America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Southam.shtml\">South America<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Europe.shtml\">Europe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Asia.shtml\">Asia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Africa.shtml\">Africa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Australia.shtml\">Australia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/subjects\/dinosaurs\/dinofossils\/locations\/Antarctica.shtml\">Antartica<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Looking (skirmishly) at the Asia page (above), it seems to tell me that hardly any gigantic dinosaurs were found in that Middle East region, but, I guess, maybe this explains why there&#8217;s so much oil overthere (reminder: <a href=\"http:\/\/earthguide.ucsd.edu\/fuels\/oil.html\">how oil forms<\/a>). Additionally, it appears that most of the dino fossils appear to have been found in North America. You can make up your own mind about that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seeing a picture at Reddit (a biblical person riding a dinosaur) with a long winding comment thread, I found myself looking for statistics about fossil finds. More or less, I&#8217;m looking for the answer to the question of &#8220;Which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1826\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[233,164,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}