{"id":125595,"date":"2025-11-06T20:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125595\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:33:08","slug":"exceptionally-rare-sighting-spotted-in-mayo-waters-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/125595\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Exceptionally&#8217; rare sighting spotted in Mayo waters &#8211; news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">During a night dive in Kilcummin by the local sub-aqua club, Teach an Uisce, an exceptionally rare sighting was spotted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A squid, believed to be a European common squid, was pictured close to the Kilcummin Pier shore yesterday evening (Wednesday, November 5).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3818210_1_articleinline_IMG-20251105-WA0009.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"card-img\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Known for its reddish-brown colouring and large, graceful fins, this squid is usually found in deeper offshore waters, making this a truly unusual inshore sighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a night dive in Kilcummin by the local sub-aqua club, Teach an Uisce, an exceptionally rare sighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-125595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}