{"id":110600,"date":"2025-05-31T13:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=110600"},"modified":"2025-05-31T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T17:43:42","slug":"happy-birthday-acro","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/happy-birthday-acro\/2025-06-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Acro!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35476\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_7297_night_at_the_museum_acro_edited_nik_800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_7297_night_at_the_museum_acro_edited_nik_800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_7297_night_at_the_museum_acro_edited_nik_800x600-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_7297_night_at_the_museum_acro_edited_nik_800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_7297_night_at_the_museum_acro_edited_nik_800x600-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Noon and 2 PM &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Acro at 75: The History, Biology, and Afterlife of <em>Acrocanthosaurus<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">June 22, 2025 marks 75 years since the description of \u201cThe Terror of the South\u201d, the Early Cretaceous theropod megapredator <em>Acrocanthosaurus atokensis<\/em>. Join NCMNS Research Curator of Paleontology Dr. Christian Kammerer for a presentation on the history of <em>Acrocanthosaurus<\/em> discoveries, recent research on its anatomy and lifestyle, and discussion of how we are preserving Acro\u2019s skeleton for the next century. Original <em>Acrocanthosaurus<\/em> fossils from our collections will make a rare public appearance in the Theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noon and 2 PM &#8211; Acro at 75: The History, Biology, and Afterlife of Acrocanthosaurus June 22, 2025 marks 75 years since the description of \u201cThe Terror of the South\u201d, the Early Cretaceous theropod megapredator Acrocanthosaurus atokensis. Join NCMNS Research Curator of Paleontology Dr. Christian Kammerer for a presentation on the history of Acrocanthosaurus discoveries,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/happy-birthday-acro\/2025-06-22\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[4,15,25,257,47],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/110600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/110600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110600"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=110600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}