{"id":18956,"date":"2025-11-18T01:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18956"},"modified":"2025-11-18T01:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:16:14","slug":"major-update-on-preserved-great-white-shark-that-was-found-in-abandoned-wildlife-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=18956","title":{"rendered":"Major update on preserved great white shark that was found in abandoned wildlife park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An update has been issued on the preserved great white shark who was abandoned in a theme park while in a tub of formaldehyde.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rosie the great white shark died in 1997 when she got caught in tuna fishing nets off the Australian coast and couldn&#8217;t escape. With no safe option available, the choice was made to humanely kill her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her body was stored in a freezer for educational purposes, though at one point she had to undergo an autopsy following reports of a person going missing off the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wildlife park Wildlife Wonderland said they were interested in taking her carcass in as an exhibit in 1998, and reportedly shelled out AU $500,000 (\u00a3250,000) to buy her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She would soon end up in her new home in a tank of toxic formaldehyde to preserve her body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The centre would sadly close down in 2012, but while other (live) animals were moved, Rosie stayed put for years, remaining in her glass tank while everything decayed around her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update has been issued on the preserved great white shark who was abandoned in a theme park while in a tub of formaldehyde. Rosie the great&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":156,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18958,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18956\/revisions\/18958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}