{"id":484202,"date":"2026-02-19T01:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484202\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:09:08","slug":"hidden-in-a-kentucky-cave-for-325-million-years-these-shark-species-were-never-supposed-to-be-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/484202\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden in a Kentucky cave for 325 million years, these shark species were never supposed to be found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tHidden in a Kentucky cave for 325 million years, these shark species were never supposed to be found &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 18, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Philip-Thurston.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"marine predators\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Imprisoned for 325 million years, these marine predators resurface from the depths of the Earth \u00a9 Philip Thurston<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hidden in a Kentucky cave for 325 million years, these shark species were never supposed to be found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,195321,195322,195323,66,323],"class_list":["post-484202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carboniferous-sea","tag-mammoth-cave-discovery","tag-prehistoric-sharks","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}