{"id":122687,"date":"2025-08-31T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122687\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:37:09","slug":"maine-fisherman-finds-great-white-shark-tooth-in-buoy-off-little-stave-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/122687\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine fisherman finds great white shark tooth in buoy off Little Stave Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SORRENTO, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A Maine fisherman made an unexpected discovery in his buoy this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Midcoast Villager, fisherman Jordan Piper found a large shark tooth while hauling traps.<\/p>\n<p>He was working off Little Stave Island near Sorrento when he spotted it.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Department of Marine Resources confirmed it\u2019s from a great white shark.<\/p>\n<p>They say sharks are known to bite objects such as buoys.<\/p>\n<p>Piper says the tooth measures nearly three inches long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SORRENTO, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A Maine fisherman made an unexpected discovery in his buoy this week. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[29270,5223,11342,78537,78539,79,78538,67355,78540,201],"class_list":["post-122687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-buoy","tag-fisherman","tag-great-white-shark","tag-little-stave-island","tag-maine-department-of-marine-resources","tag-science","tag-sorrento","tag-tooth","tag-traps","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}