{"id":152243,"date":"2025-11-21T16:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152243\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T16:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T16:39:09","slug":"irelands-first-narwhal-washes-up-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/152243\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s First Narwhal Washes Up in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed a rare and historic discovery in Donegal as Ireland\u2019s first ever recorded narwhal has washed up on the Inishowen coastline.<\/p>\n<p>The female narwhal, an Arctic-dwelling species, was found on Sweet Nellies Beach and recovered by the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for scientific examination.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers from the IWDG responded quickly and arrived at the scene to recover the carcass and collect skin samples.<\/p>\n<p>Post-mortem tests are now underway, as NPWS and the IWDG work to understand why this elusive \u201cunicorn of the sea\u201d reached Irish water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Parks and Wildlife Service has confirmed a rare and historic discovery in Donegal as Ireland\u2019s first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-152243","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\/152243","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=152243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}