{"id":634372,"date":"2019-10-16T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634372"},"modified":"2019-10-16T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T15:11:07","slug":"what-gives-a-3-meter-long-amazonian-fish-some-of-the-toughest-scales-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=634372","title":{"rendered":"What gives a 3-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. It&#8217;s evolved armor-like scales that deform, but don&#8217;t tear or crack, when a piranha &#8212; which has one of the animal kingdom&#8217;s most powerful bites &#8212; attacks. Researchers describe the unique properties of the Amazonian Arapaima skin and its potential for human-made materials.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/10\/191016111107.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">What gives a 3-meter-long Amazonian fish some of the toughest scales on Earth<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#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. It&#8217;s evolved armor-like scales that deform, but don&#8217;t tear&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-634372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634372","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=634372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634372\/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=634372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=634372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=634372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}