Tails aren’t just animal accessories. They usually carry specific functions. But when it comes to rays, their function has been somewhat mysterious until now. Cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) — like ...

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NEWPORT NEWS -- If you're in the right spot at the right time on the Chesapeake Bay, you could spot cownose rays swimming in schools of thousands. Shirley Estes, who promotes Virginia seafood for a ...

Screen grab of a man fishing off a beach in Florida as a group of stingrays called cownose rays swims behind him. See Through Canoe Drone footage captured a man fishing peacefully off a beach in St.

More than 100 cownose rays died in the waters off the shores of northern Anne Arundel County near Glen Burnie in recent weeks, creating an odor residents say deterred them from leaving their homes.

It turns out that, like the antennas on an insect or crustacean, a ray uses its tail to sense its environment. The inside of a myliobatid stingray tail is remarkably complex, the scientists learned.