{"id":242354,"date":"2026-08-07T09:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sharks-with-headlights-glowing-sharks-use-their-own-shine-to-hunt-prey-new-evidence-suggests"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:06:18","slug":"sharks-with-headlights-glowing-sharks-use-their-own-shine-to-hunt-prey-new-evidence-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/sharks-with-headlights-glowing-sharks-use-their-own-shine-to-hunt-prey-new-evidence-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Sharks With Headlights: Glowing Sharks Use Their Own Shine to Hunt Prey, New Evidence Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sharks-with-headlights-glowing-sharks-use-their-own-shine-to-hunt-prey-new-evidence-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the deep, dim ocean, a world of eat-or-be-eaten, lighting up may seem like a counterintuitive survival strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, it helps many animals hide from predators that might strike from below \u2013 a shine that conceals the shadow they cast against the faint light filtering down from above.<\/p>\n<p>Now, however, scientists have found evidence that one of the most stunning bioluminescent animals in the ocean may have been using its light in another way all along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the deep, dim ocean, a world of eat-or-be-eaten, lighting up may seem like a counterintuitive survival strategy. Nevertheless, it helps many animals hide from predators that might strike from below \u2013 a shine that conceals the shadow they cast against the faint light filtering down from above. Now, however, scientists have found evidence that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242354","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}