{"id":760305,"date":"2023-07-13T09:04:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760305"},"modified":"2023-07-13T09:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T13:04:19","slug":"tiny-scales-reveal-megalodon-was-not-as-fast-as-believed-but-it-had-a-mega-appetite-explaining-its-gigantism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760305","title":{"rendered":"Tiny scales reveal megalodon was not as fast as believed, but it had a mega-appetite explaining its gigantism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals the iconic extinct Megalodon, or &#8220;megatooth shark,&#8221; was a rather slow cruiser that used its warm-bloodedness to facilitate digestion and absorption of nutrients.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-07-tiny-scales-reveal-megalodon-fast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tiny scales reveal megalodon was not as fast as believed, but it had a mega-appetite explaining its gigantism<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals the iconic extinct Megalodon, or &#8220;megatooth shark,&#8221; was a rather slow cruiser that used its warm-bloodedness to facilitate digestion and absorption of nutrients.&#013; &#013; &#013; Click&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-760305","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\/760305","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=760305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760305\/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=760305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}