{"id":678,"date":"2012-01-03T20:36:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T02:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-01-03T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T02:36:26","slug":"maybe-weerd-can-explain-this-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Maybe WEERD can explain this to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because apparently I&#8217;m not smart enough to understand this. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weerdworld.com\/2012\/i-welcome-i-new-shark-overlords\/\">A marine researcher is clearly needed.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So some scientists in Australia discovered that a shark native to the tropics has mated with a shark that is very similar (both are called black tip sharks) and produced a hybrid. That I get.<\/p>\n<p>What I don&#8217;t understand is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Australian black-tip is slightly smaller than its common cousin and can only live in tropical waters, but its hybrid offspring have been found 2,000 kilometres down the coast, in cooler seas.<br \/>\nIt means the Australian black-tip could be adapting to ensure its survival as sea temperatures change because of global warming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me see if I follow: A shark that can only survive in <i>warm waters<\/i> mates with a shark that lives in <i>cool waters<\/i> due to <i>rising<\/i> temperatures? <\/p>\n<p>And this counts as a valid scientific hypothesis because&#8230;.why exactly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because apparently I&#8217;m not smart enough to understand this. A marine researcher is clearly needed. So some scientists in Australia discovered that a shark native to the tropics has mated with a shark that is very similar (both are called black tip sharks) and produced a hybrid. That I get. What I don&#8217;t understand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}