{"id":89325,"date":"2019-04-08T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/poisons-flow-in-toxic-levels-through-the-veins-of-great-white-sharks-new-study-shows"},"modified":"2019-04-08T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T19:42:56","slug":"poisons-flow-in-toxic-levels-through-the-veins-of-great-white-sharks-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/poisons-flow-in-toxic-levels-through-the-veins-of-great-white-sharks-new-study-shows","title":{"rendered":"Poisons flow in toxic levels through the veins of great white sharks, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/poisons-flow-in-toxic-levels-through-the-veins-of-great-white-sharks-new-study-shows.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Great white sharks\u2014one of the ocean\u2019s most fearsome apex predators\u2014thrive with toxic levels of poisons flowing in their veins, according to a new study by OCEARCH.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers recently came to that conclusion after taking <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/blood+samples\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood samples<\/a> from 40 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/white+sharks\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">white sharks<\/a> off South Africa, according to an April 3 report on OCEARCH.org.<\/p>\n<p>The samples revealed \u201calarmingly high levels of poisonous heavy metals, like arsenic and mercury, in sharks\u2019 blood,\u201d says the report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-poisons-toxic-veins-great-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great white sharks\u2014one of the ocean\u2019s most fearsome apex predators\u2014thrive with toxic levels of poisons flowing in their veins, according to a new study by OCEARCH. Researchers recently came to that conclusion after taking blood samples from 40 white sharks off South Africa, according to an April 3 report on OCEARCH.org. The samples revealed \u201calarmingly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89325","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}