{"id":596996,"date":"2026-08-18T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596996\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:56:08","slug":"a-rare-baby-sighting-could-reveal-where-life-begins-for-worlds-largest-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/596996\/","title":{"rendered":"A rare baby sighting could reveal where life begins for world&#8217;s largest sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Although many mysteries remain in the reproductive lives of whale sharks, we are getting closer to answers, says Womersley, who is preparing to travel to Mexico to attach camera-equipped tags that shed more light: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s only a matter of time before someone finds the right shark, puts the right device on it, the stars align, and we get that incredible footage,&#8221; she says. &#8220;I say &#8216;a matter of time&#8217; \u2013 how long that is, I do not know!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although many mysteries remain in the reproductive lives of whale sharks, we are getting closer to answers, says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-596996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596996","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=596996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}