{"id":7886,"date":"2011-12-24T01:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T09:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=7886"},"modified":"2011-12-24T03:41:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T11:41:04","slug":"hammerhead-sharks-can-reproduce-asexually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/hammerhead-sharks-can-reproduce-asexually\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammerhead Sharks can Reproduce Asexually"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shark-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7915\" title=\"shark-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shark-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shark-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/shark-facts-340x310.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first documented case of a hammerhead shark reproducing asexually happened on December 14, 2001 at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska where a female hammerhead shark, which was kept in isolation from males, miraculously gave birth to a pup.\u00a0 The pup was unfortunately killed by a stingray shortly thereafter, but testing showed that the pup was, in fact, a child of only its mother, though not a perfect clone, containing only half of its mother&#8217;s DNA.\u00a0 This made it the first documented case of a cartilaginous fish reproducing this way.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Asexual Reproducing Animals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/the-new-mexico-whiptail-lizard-is-made-up-entirely-of-females\/\">Sources and Further Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first documented case of a hammerhead shark reproducing asexually happened on December 14, 2001 at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska where a female hammerhead shark, which was kept in isolation from males, miraculously gave birth to a pup.\u00a0 The pup was unfortunately killed by a stingray shortly thereafter, but testing showed that the pup was, in fact, a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1604,1603],"class_list":["post-7886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-asexual-reproduction","tag-hammerhead-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8085,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7886\/revisions\/8085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}