{"id":113930,"date":"2020-10-05T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-find-queen-of-the-ocean-ancient-great-white-shark-off-nova-scotia-coast"},"modified":"2020-10-05T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T02:22:45","slug":"researchers-find-queen-of-the-ocean-ancient-great-white-shark-off-nova-scotia-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/researchers-find-queen-of-the-ocean-ancient-great-white-shark-off-nova-scotia-coast","title":{"rendered":"Researchers find \u2018Queen of the Ocean\u2019 ancient great white shark off Nova Scotia coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-find-queen-of-the-ocean-ancient-great-white-shark-off-nova-scotia-coast.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The shark, named Nukumi by researchers, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia found a nearly 2-ton great white shark believed to be roughly 50 years old, dubbing her a true \u201cQueen of the Ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming in at more than 17 feet long and 3,541 pounds, she is the largest shark the group has been able to sample in the Northwest Atlantic, according to a Friday Facebook post by OCEARCH, a non-profit marine research organization. She\u2019s been named Nukumi for \u201cthe legendary wise old grandmother figure\u201d of the Indigenous Mi\u2019kmaq people, a First Nations group native to that region of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The shark, named Nukumi by researchers, is more than 17 feet long, 3,541 pounds and believed to be about 50-years-old. Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia found a nearly 2-ton great white shark believed to be roughly 50 years old, dubbing her a true \u201cQueen of the Ocean.\u201d Coming in at more than 17 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}