{"id":188346,"date":"2025-08-31T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:27:09","slug":"maine-fisherman-finds-great-white-shark-tooth-in-buoy-off-little-stave-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188346\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine fisherman finds great white shark tooth in buoy off Little Stave Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SORRENTO, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A Maine fisherman made an unexpected discovery in his buoy this week.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Midcoast Villager, fisherman Jordan Piper found a large shark tooth while hauling traps.<\/p>\n<p>He was working off Little Stave Island near Sorrento when he spotted it.<\/p>\n<p>The Maine Department of Marine Resources confirmed it\u2019s from a great white shark.<\/p>\n<p>They say sharks are known to bite objects such as buoys.<\/p>\n<p>Piper says the tooth measures nearly three inches long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SORRENTO, Maine (WGME) &#8212; A Maine fisherman made an unexpected discovery in his buoy this week. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[71968,44499,3206,105412,105414,159,105413,105411,105415,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-188346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-buoy","9":"tag-fisherman","10":"tag-great-white-shark","11":"tag-little-stave-island","12":"tag-maine-department-of-marine-resources","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-sorrento","15":"tag-tooth","16":"tag-traps","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115120782933299522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}