{"id":9284,"date":"2026-09-15T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:22:01","slug":"rise-of-the-mammals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2026\/09\/15\/rise-of-the-mammals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of the Mammals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/video\/rise-of-the-mammals\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/video\/rise-of-the-mammals\/\">Nova documentary<\/a> especially fascinating since I live close to the site where these fossils were found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"492\" height=\"325\" data-attachment-id=\"9285\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2026\/09\/15\/rise-of-the-mammals\/20260915coralbluffs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260915coralbluffs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"492,325\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"20260915coralbluffs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260915coralbluffs.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260915coralbluffs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260915coralbluffs.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260915coralbluffs-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this Nova documentary especially fascinating since I live close to the site where these fossils were found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-2pK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9286,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions\/9286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}