{"id":336308,"date":"2026-07-10T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336308\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:48:10","slug":"seaworld-orlando-marks-third-birthday-of-sawfish-pups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336308\/","title":{"rendered":"SeaWorld Orlando marks third birthday of sawfish pups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 SeaWorld Orlando will celebrate the third birthday of its three smalltooth sawfish pups on Saturday, marking a conservation milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The pups were born July 11, 2023, becoming the first smalltooth sawfish ever born in human care in the United States and only the second successful birth of the critically endangered species in an aquarium worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Smalltooth sawfish are the only species of sawfish found in U.S. waters and are listed as critically endangered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">SeaWorld said the anniversary highlights the park\u2019s ongoing conservation, research and animal care efforts for the species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783723690_996_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 SeaWorld Orlando will celebrate the third birthday of its three smalltooth sawfish pups on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24237,147,145,138469,138470,28,139,141,140,9026,40641,144,146],"class_list":["post-336308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-animal-care","tag-central-florida","tag-channel-9","tag-conservation-milestone","tag-critically-endangered","tag-florida","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-seaworld-orlando","tag-smalltooth-sawfish","tag-wftv","tag-wftv-channel-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}