{"id":8898,"date":"2017-12-28T00:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T07:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2017-12-26T03:28:47","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T10:28:47","slug":"columbus-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/28\/columbus-shark\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus&#8217; Shark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/666587\/shark-oldest-living-vertebrate-greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from The Daily Star<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"clear\">Ancient LIVING shark born in 1500s is world&#8217;s OLDEST vertebrate and could be 512 years old<\/h1>\n<p class=\"lead\">A SHARK believed to be the oldest living vertebrate has been discovered in the North Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>By <a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/search\/Anthony+Blair\">Anthony Blair<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo kalooga_12952\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/33\/photos\/800000\/620x\/shark-main-666587.jpg\" alt=\"Ancient shark\" data-w=\"620\" data-h=\"413\" \/><em><span class=\"credit new\">INSTAGRAM\/@JUNIEL85 \/\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"caption new\">BIZARRE: An ancient living shark has been discovered that&#8217;s believed to be up to 512 years old<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danish scientists found the ancient creature \u2014 which is believed to be 512 years old and is 18ft long.<\/p>\n<p>The shark is the world&#8217;s oldest vertebrate \u2013 an animal with a backbone \u2013 and may have been born in 1505, when King Henry VIII was just 14 years old.<\/p>\n<p>According to the journal Science, Greenland sharks grow at just one cm a year.<\/p>\n<p>So when they discovered a female shark measuring a whopping 18 feet, they knew this creature had to be incredibly old.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/weird-news\/666587\/shark-oldest-living-vertebrate-greenland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at The Daily Star<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Daily Star Ancient LIVING shark born in 1500s is world&#8217;s OLDEST vertebrate and could be 512 years old A SHARK believed to be the oldest living vertebrate has been discovered in the North Atlantic Ocean. By Anthony Blair INSTAGRAM\/@JUNIEL85 \/\u00a0BIZARRE: An ancient living shark has been discovered that&#8217;s believed to be up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}