{"id":572691,"date":"2026-08-18T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572691\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T12:14:08","slug":"a-rare-baby-sighting-could-reveal-where-life-begins-for-worlds-largest-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/572691\/","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":572692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-572691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}