{"id":30979,"date":"2025-01-16T12:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/aquarium\/monterey-bay-aquarium-hi-fronds\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T12:22:09","slug":"monterey-bay-aquarium-hi-fronds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=30979","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Bay Aquarium \u2014 Hi fronds!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/montereybayaquarium.tumblr.com\/post\/183869873023\/monterey-bay-aquarium-hatches-extinct-wooly\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">montereybayaquarium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"1200\" data-orig-height=\"800\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/af663444bbbaae4c3b777a03d18ae1e6\/tumblr_inline_pp1f65k6yM1qk45js_1280.jpg\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"1200\" data-orig-height=\"800\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>A young wooly sunfish <i>Woola woola<\/i> in the Aquarium\u2019s Open Sea exhibition. <br \/>\u00a9 Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/p>\n<p><b>Monterey, CA<\/b> \u2014 In a hair-raising breakthrough, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have successfully hatched the previously extinct wooly sunfish, or Woola woola.<b><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re so excited to finally let our hair down about this research,\u201d said Harriett Topay, the lead scientist on the project. \u201cAfter numerous breakthroughs in raising comb jellies, we knew we were groomed for success with the wooly sunfish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe science was patchy to say the least,\u201d said Will Koife, one of the aquarists on the project. \u201cBut after brushing up on the few trimmings of data we could find, everything sorta gelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Woola woola<\/i>, the only known member of its genus, once swam in the frigid waters of an ancient ocean far chillier than it is today. Subsisting on a diet of mullet and ctenophores, its shaggy, rugged pelt provided extra insulation on deeper dives.<\/p>\n<p>According to a thin fossil record, the wooly sunfish went extinct sometime after the last Ice Age. But a recent discovery of some permafrosted tips of Woola fur with viable DNA gave the wooly sunfish a chance at recovery.<\/p>\n<figure data-orig-width=\"600\" data-orig-height=\"526\" class=\"tmblr-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/7da0f1a6d4b12ff431fb53b072e604ab\/tumblr_inline_pp1f7vVAei1qk45js_640.gifv\" alt=\"image\" data-orig-width=\"600\" data-orig-height=\"526\" width=\"600\" height=\"526\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Three juvenile wooly sunfish ready to greet Aquarium visitors at their April 1st unveiling.\u00a0\u00a9 Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a close shave for the Woola, for sure, but we\u2019ll see if they can make the cut this time,\u201d said Will.<\/p>\n<p>The resurrection of the Woola has caused a few vocal critics to curl. \u201cThis research is really fringe, and not in a good way,\u201d said Dr. E.N. Malcomb, a notable de-extinction buzzkill. \u201cI don\u2019t want to split hairs on ethics, but with the Woola, there\u2019s been a lotta coulda, and not a lotta shoulda.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Malcomb continued: \u201cBut then again, the return of the wooly sunfish could just be a bald-faced lie\u2014and based on today\u2019s date, I think that\u2019s a safe bet.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey thanks everyone for playing along yesterday. Yes, this is an April Fool\u2019s joke, the <i>Woola woola<\/i> isn\u2019t real\u2014but the <i>Mola mola<\/i> is! See if you can spot these hairless wonders on <a href=\"https:\/\/mbayaq.co\/2IFdwc3\">our Open Sea Live Cam!<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\" data-orig-height=\"1200\" data-orig-width=\"800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/64.media.tumblr.com\/c6801b6d97d5b120ea49daee0e79ae97\/tumblr_inline_ppcderHW881qk45js_1280.jpg\" data-orig-height=\"1200\" data-orig-width=\"800\" width=\"700\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"image\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>montereybayaquarium: A young wooly sunfish Woola woola in the Aquarium\u2019s Open Sea exhibition. \u00a9 Monterey Bay Aquarium Monterey, CA \u2014 In a hair-raising breakthrough, scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium have successfully hatched the previously extinct wooly sunfish, or Woola woola. \u201cWe\u2019re so excited to finally let our hair down about this research,\u201d said Harriett [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12040],"tags":[12670,5140,20873,14295,14294],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-30979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquarium","tag-aquarium","tag-bay","tag-fronds","tag-monterey","tag-monterey-bay-aquarium"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Monterey Bay Aquarium \u2014 Hi fronds! 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