{"id":58056,"date":"2024-12-11T13:06:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T13:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/?p=58056"},"modified":"2025-01-22T15:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:17:16","slug":"deutsch-die-bergung-der-fossilien-aus-der-westerschelde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/info\/deutsch-die-bergung-der-fossilien-aus-der-westerschelde\/","title":{"rendered":"The recovery of fossils from the Westerschelde"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot of time, money, and effort to recover the unique fossils from the Westerschelde. They lie not only 30 meters deep, in the middle of one of the busiest shipping routes in Europe, but are also extremely heavy. To recover them, you need a fisherman with a specialized ship, willing to lose many nets, and, perhaps most importantly: fearless. Afterward, experts must identify the fossil in the rock. This is no easy task, as often only a very small part of the fossil is visible. Finally, the fossils must be prepared. This is precise and very time-consuming work, especially because these are unknown species with skeletal parts that have never been described before. Additionally, the stones may contain shark teeth, sea urchins, shells, and many other marine animals. A single skull can require several hundred hours of preparation work. But then, something is revealed that no one in the world has ever seen, and perhaps a new dolphin species will be named after the brave captain who dared to recover it (<em>Scaldiporia vandokkumi<\/em> \u2013 after skipper Jan van Dokkum).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a lot of time, money, and effort to recover the unique fossils from the Westerschelde. They lie not only 30 meters deep, in the middle of one of the busiest shipping routes in Europe, but are also extremely heavy. To recover them, you need a fisherman with a specialized ship, willing to lose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":58146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historyland.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}