{"id":1238199,"date":"2025-03-09T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238199"},"modified":"2025-03-09T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T23:01:58","slug":"some-megalodons-reached-80-feet-but-they-werent-built-like-great-whites-research-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1238199","title":{"rendered":"Some Megalodons Reached 80 Feet\u2014But They Weren\u2019t Built Like Great Whites, Research Suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"An artistic illustration of an Otodus megalodon next to a diver.\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-336x224.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-1400x932.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Megalodon-896x597.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\"><\/p>\n<p>Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark species.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers refined their size estimates of the prehistoric shark by studying the bodily proportions of 165 other shark species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1238199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gizmodo","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1238199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1238199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1238199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1238199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1238199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}