skates and rays) use the vertical dimension of the ocean. The research team, including fish biologist Ryan Saunders at British Antarctic Survey (BAS), analyzed some of the most mysterious deep ...

Many fishmongers and fishermen wrongly label various species of ray as ‘skate’, which is incorrect – and skate is an ...

They are a species of elasmobranch, a group including rays, skates and sharks, that have no bones or skeletons, only cartilage, and they eat fish, shrimp and crabs. Finding the sawfish at the ...

A team of scientists launched a sleek new vessel this week on an inlet off Shinnecock Bay: a remote-controlled, solar-powered ...

Skates, Rays and Other Sharks The angel shark more ... Angel sharks seem to favor one hunting spot strongly, but if the local ...

It would be inappropriate to comment further." Skate and rays, fish closely related to sharks, can be caught unintentionally during trawler fishing, but there are rules around how they should be ...

Christensen looked at the digestion of the Clearnose skates. He explained that they fed the skates right before testing their ...

Mandelman, Ph.D. Research Scientist (at NEAq in various positions since 2001) B.A. University of Rochester, 1996, Psychology Ph.D. Northeastern University, 2006, Biology Research Interests: stress ...

"It's likely the case it was some animal with teeth -- not a ray. And certainly not a skate because skates are relatively harmless to people." According to the NJ Division of Fish & Wildlife ...

The group includes the more famous animals such as whale sharks and great whites, but also all rays, skates and the little-known chimaeras (also known as ratfish, rabbit fish or ghost sharks). While ...

Image of the eel escaping from the fish's gills. Videos using X-rays have discovered exactly how the eels do this. Image of the eel escaping from the fish's gills. Videos using X-rays have ...

The first recorded evidence of parthenogenesis in a cartilaginous fish (which includes sharks, rays, and skates) occurred in 2001 with a captive hammerhead shark. The wild-caught shark hadn ...