{"id":212120,"date":"2025-12-02T22:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212120\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:40:24","slug":"rare-egg-laid-by-endangered-species-found-in-waters-next-to-wicklows-new-aquarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212120\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare egg laid by endangered species found in waters next to Wicklow\u2019s new aquarium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pictured in Marine Life Bray after the egg find, were: Tamara Deans  aquarist), Dr Patrick Collins, Silvia Goffi (general manager), Elaine Geaney (aquarist) and Mercedes Dorrian Smith (PhD student).\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BP Marinelife.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Pictured in Marine Life Bray after the egg find, were: Tamara Deans  aquarist), Dr Patrick Collins, Silvia Goffi (general manager), Elaine Geaney (aquarist) and Mercedes Dorrian Smith (PhD student).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When the former aquarium in Bray, County Wicklow, reopened earlier this month as Marine Life, two years after its shock closure, the new owners could not have predicted that they would be blessed with a special gift from the Irish Sea in the form of a rare egg laid by a critically endangered fish \u2013 something that was last found on the east coast around 100 years ago. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Happenstance placed young student Cerys Roberts on Bray beach, on the Monday morning following the onslaught of Storm Claudia over the weekend of November 14 and 15, and while most people would have overlooked what she found, Cerys, from Wales, is a student of ecology and biodiversity at Bray Institute of Further Education, and also a marine \u201centhusiast\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pictured in Marine Life Bray after the egg find, were: Tamara Deans aquarist), Dr Patrick Collins, Silvia Goffi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[18,440,19,17,133,9273],"class_list":{"0":"post-212120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-tom-galvin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115652383733619039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}