{"id":634360,"date":"2019-10-16T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634360"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:00:01","slug":"what-gives-a-three-meter-long-amazonian-fish-some-of-the-toughest-scales-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634360","title":{"rendered":"What gives a three-meter-long Amazonian fish some of the toughest scales on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arapaima gigas is a big fish in a bigger river full of piranhas, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s an easy meal. The freshwater giant has evolved armor-like scales that can deform, but do not tear or crack, when a piranha\u2014which has one of the animal kingdom&#8217;s most powerful bites\u2014attacks. Researchers from UC San Diego and UC Berkeley describe the unique properties of the Amazonian Arapaima skin and its potential for man-made materials October 16 in the journal Matter.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-10-three-meter-long-amazonian-fish-toughest-scales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">What gives a three-meter-long Amazonian fish some of the toughest scales on Earth<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arapaima gigas is a big fish in a bigger river full of piranhas, but that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s an easy meal. The freshwater giant has evolved armor-like scales that can&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=634360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=634360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}