{"id":14837,"date":"2025-06-14T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14837"},"modified":"2025-06-05T18:08:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T18:08:50","slug":"ancient-red-panda-fossil-pristinailurus-bristoli-tennessee-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/ancient-red-panda-fossil-pristinailurus-bristoli-tennessee-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ancient Red Panda Found in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How a Sinkhole Revealed a Lost World\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/knh8skpSQLs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An ancient sinkhole in Tennessee preserved fossils from a 5-million-year-old forest, including turtles, tapirs, mastodons, and a red panda relative. This rare site reveals a warm, subtropical ecosystem. It hints at intercontinental species migration between Eurasia and North America, offering new insights into a poorly documented period of North American prehistory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fossil-rich sinkhole in Tennessee preserved a 5-million-year-old red panda relative, revealing unexpected migration links between North America and Eurasia.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/ca\/Pristinailurus_bristoli.tif\/lossless-page1-1101px-Pristinailurus_bristoli.tif.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[11952,11942,11953,11955,11959,11958,11944,11954,11951,11950,11943,11946,11956,230,11957,11941,11945,11960,11949,11947,11948,189],"class_list":["post-14837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-nature","category-earth","tag-ancient-lake-sediment-fossils","tag-ancient-red-panda-fossil","tag-cenozoic-fossil-record-north-america","tag-false-thumb-red-panda-ancestor","tag-fossil-discoveries-in-karst-basins","tag-fossilized-subtropical-fauna","tag-gray-fossil-site-tennessee","tag-gray-tennessee-paleontology","tag-intercontinental-mammal-migration","tag-karst-landscape-fossil-preservation","tag-miocene-pliocene-migration","tag-north-america-eurasia-species-exchange","tag-north-american-paleobiogeography","tag-pbs-eons","tag-prehistoric-ecosystem-preservation","tag-prehistoric-red-panda","tag-pristinailurus-bristoli","tag-red-panda-ancestor-in-america","tag-red-panda-evolution","tag-subtropical-forest-ecosystem-fossil","tag-tennessee-sinkhole-fossil-site","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14839,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14837\/revisions\/14839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}