{"id":32190,"date":"2021-02-16T19:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32190"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:11:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:11:47","slug":"word-of-the-day-652","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/16\/word-of-the-day-652\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Intrauterine cannibalism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The large birth size of O. megalodon suggests that the young sharks, like many present-day sharks, ate unhatched eggs in the uterus to survive \u2013 a phenomenon called intrauterine cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequence is that only a few pups will survive and develop, but each of them can become large in body size at birth which gives [them] an advantage as already large predators,\u201d says [Kenshu Shimada at DePaul University.<em> [&#8220;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2264340-megalodon-sharks-grew-2-metres-long-in-the-uterus-by-eating-eggs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megalodon sharks grew 2 metres long in the uterus by eating eggs<\/a>,<em>&#8221; Karina Shah, <strong>NewScientist<\/strong> (16 January 2021)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A related phenomenon, I suppose, is the occasional occurrence of a human twin absorbing the other of the pair into its body. When the twins are fraternal, I believe the result is called a chimera, as different cells may exhibit different DNA signatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intrauterine cannibalism: The large birth size of O. megalodon suggests that the young sharks, like many present-day sharks, ate unhatched eggs in the uterus to survive \u2013 a phenomenon called intrauterine cannibalism. \u201cThe consequence is that only a few pups will survive and develop, but each of them can become \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/02\/16\/word-of-the-day-652\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32191,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32190\/revisions\/32191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}