{"id":25223,"date":"2010-02-11T07:40:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/02\/11\/worlds-largest-fish-that-is-no\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T07:40:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T07:40:24","slug":"worlds-largest-fish-that-is-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/worlds-largest-fish-that-is-no\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Largest Fish that is not a whale* on film!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sucker was filmed in the Gulf of Mexico swimming among the oil rigs!!! It propelled itself with undulations of its dorsal fin and looks a lot like a sea serpent.  In fact, it is said to be &#8220;the origin of the sea serpent myth&#8221; but I&#8217;m not quite sure what the difference is between being &#8220;the origin of the story of a 30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin&#8221; and being a &#8220;30 foot long fishy snaky thing with an undulating dorsal fin&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lvRqqwBoyx8&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.serpentproject.com\/missions_gom.php\"><br \/>\nThe Gulf Serpent Project is here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&#038;safe=off&#038;client=firefox-a&#038;rls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&#038;hs=UKt&#038;q=Mark+Benfield+ocean&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=&#038;oq=\">Mark Benfield is Here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2010\/02\/scientists_capture_giant_sea_s.php\">Hat Tip Grrrrrl Scientist. <\/a>  Oh, and while visiting Grrrl Scientist, look at this:<a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/grrlscientist\/2010\/02\/scientia_pro_publica_its_about_1.php\"> Posts and hosts are neexed for Scientia Pro Publica<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Note:  Whales are not fish.  That was a joke. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sucker was filmed in the Gulf of Mexico swimming among the oil rigs!!! It propelled itself with undulations of its dorsal fin and looks a lot like a sea serpent. In fact, it is said to be &#8220;the origin of the sea serpent myth&#8221; but I&#8217;m not quite sure what the difference is between &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/worlds-largest-fish-that-is-no\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World&#8217;s Largest Fish that is not a whale* on film!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[213],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6yP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}