{"id":97301,"date":"2025-08-26T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97301\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:20:07","slug":"rare-bright-orange-shark-discovered-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/97301\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare bright orange shark discovered in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Xanthism is caused by pigments in the skin, which is something that all animals have that gives their skin a certain colour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The condition happens when creatures have a loss of darker pigments, meaning that a yellow or orange colour comes through more strongly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This shark is even more unique because it also has white eyes, which researchers say could mean it also has albinism. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is another condition that leads to little or no production of a pigment called melanin, which can cause the colour of a creature&#8217;s skin, hair and eyes to be white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xanthism is caused by pigments in the skin, which is something that all animals have that gives their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-97301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}