{"id":16325,"date":"2022-07-28T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16325"},"modified":"2022-07-28T07:58:10","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T07:58:10","slug":"scientists-discover-whale-fish-is-worlds-biggest-omnivore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16325&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover whale fish is world\u2019s biggest omnivore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group of researchers have discovered that the world\u2019s biggest omnivore is a fish: the whale shark. The team\u2019s findings were published last week in the journal\u00a0<em>Ecology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the animal is called a whale shark, it isn\u2019t a whale, but a fish. While they have been known to feed on krill, scientists have now found that that they also eat plants. This discovery means that they are omnivores \u2013 animals that eat both other animals and plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis causes us to rethink everything we thought we knew about what whale sharks eat,\u201d said fish biologist and lead author Mark Meekan in an Australian Institute of Marine Science statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This realisation came about when scientists compared compounds found in plants to compounds from whale shark tissue samples. Upon finding a match, the researchers recognised that the whale sharks were using plants as a source of energy, thus rendering them the largest omnivores on Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News A group of researchers have discovered that the world\u2019s biggest omnivore is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,101,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-science-and-technology","10":"category-world","11":"cs-entry","12":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16331,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16325\/revisions\/16331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}