When most people think of cartilaginous fish, sharks are the first to come to mind. But the category also covers skates and rays—two flat, kite-shaped species of ocean dwellers closely related ...

When most people think of cartilaginous fish, sharks are the first to come to mind. But the category also covers skates and rays—two flat, kite-shaped species of ocean dwellers closely related ...

At this stage, it's no match for the real thing, but it will serve as an instrument in an ongoing effort to learn from the Batoidea ray, a collection of 500 species in 13 families including ...

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Globally, the abundance of oceanic sharks and rays dropped more than 70% between 1970 and 2018, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.

Scientists at the University of Exeter have turned to Twitter for a better picture of the effect ocean plastics are having on sharks and rays. Summing these reports, they identified more than ...

This video of 2,000-pound eagle rays launching themselves out of the ocean shows the lengths the cartilaginous fish will go to in order to procreate. Main Navigation Open menu ...

They sometimes traversed up to 30 miles of ocean per day, with each covering a distance of up to 2,300 miles over the nine-month period. Even more impressive, however, was the rays’ diving ...

Researchers used Twitter and academic journals to gather incidents of plastic entanglement among sharks and rays in four oceans, and found more than 1,000 cases just from the anecdotal sweep.