{"id":93998,"date":"2019-07-21T22:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-discovered-a-new-species-of-tiny-sharks-that-glow-in-the-dark"},"modified":"2019-07-21T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T05:22:25","slug":"scientists-discovered-a-new-species-of-tiny-sharks-that-glow-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-discovered-a-new-species-of-tiny-sharks-that-glow-in-the-dark","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discovered a new species of tiny sharks that glow in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discovered-a-new-species-of-tiny-sharks-that-glow-in-the-dark2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sharks are known to stalk and sniff out prey before they attack. But all this newly discovered shark species has to do is glow in the dark, and the prey comes to them.<\/p>\n<p>The 5\u00a01\/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of its kind to be discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new<a href=\"https:\/\/biotaxa.org\/Zootaxa\/article\/view\/zootaxa.4619.1.4\" target=\"_blank\"> Tulane University study<\/a>. It\u2019s less fearsome than it is wondrous.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists stumbled upon a teeny male kitefin shark in 2010 while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/05\/20\/europe\/sperm-whale-sicily-plastic-stomach-intl-scli\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">studying sperm whales<\/a> in the Gulf. It wasn\u2019t observed again until 2013, when National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) researcher Mark Grace found it in a pool of less luminous specimens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharks are known to stalk and sniff out prey before they attack. But all this newly discovered shark species has to do is glow in the dark, and the prey comes to them. The 5\u00a01\/2-inch American Pocket Shark is the first of its kind to be discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93998","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=93998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}