{"id":929,"date":"2009-03-02T22:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T03:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=929"},"modified":"2009-04-30T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T00:12:14","slug":"brain-found-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Brain found in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, that’s not a Kansas joke. Oldest fossilized brain ever is uncovered in Kansas:<\/a><\/p>\n

The fossil was from an iniopterygian, an ancient extinct fish that is a relative of sharks, rays and ratfish. What surprised researchers even further is that it showed a brain similar to that of modern-day shark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, that’s not a Kansas joke. Oldest fossilized brain ever is uncovered in Kansas: The fossil was from an iniopterygian, an ancient extinct fish that is a relative of sharks, rays and ratfish. What surprised researchers even further is that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-eZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":156,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=156","url_meta":{"origin":929,"position":0},"title":"Kansas returns to land of sanity","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"February 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"TOPEKA, Kan. 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