{"id":624181,"date":"2026-09-14T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624181\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T08:12:09","slug":"kents-shark-secrets-discovered-in-new-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/624181\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent&#8217;s shark secrets discovered in new project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Max Renton, project manager, said: &#8220;Sharks are incredible. They&#8217;ve been around for 400 million years, so they&#8217;re older than trees, and as top or mid-level predators they regulate the entire marine eco system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;In Kent we think it&#8217;s a really important nursery and pupping ground so we&#8217;re hoping the research can shed light on that because it could be a really important area for their development before they head out to sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the day the BBC joined the team, 31 smooth hound sharks were caught, measured and weighed and 11 were big enough to be tagged. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If they&#8217;re recaptured, the tag can give scientists vital data about the animal&#8217;s growth and where it&#8217;s been.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Renton, project manager, said: &#8220;Sharks are incredible. They&#8217;ve been around for 400 million years, so they&#8217;re older&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-624181","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\/624181","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=624181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}