{"id":690972,"date":"2026-07-14T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690972\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T10:50:09","slug":"good-at-maths-and-into-jazz-nine-extraordinary-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/690972\/","title":{"rendered":"Good at maths and into jazz: Nine extraordinary things you probably didn&#8217;t know about sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">The first shark-like teeth came 410 million years ago, and the first group that really looked like sharks evolved around 380 million years ago. Many of these ancient fish may not have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/australian.museum\/publications\/sharks\/what-is-a-shark\/\" class=\"LinkUrl-styles__LinkUrlStyled-sc-f4e3b82f-0 eGAhOs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">technically been sharks<\/a>, but they were related to them. Then, 195 million years ago, the oldest-known group of modern sharks arrived, with their flexible, protruding jaws and speedier swimming prowess.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first shark-like teeth came 410 million years ago, and the first group that really looked like sharks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-690972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}