Bandit9’s new Supermarine motorcycle may be meant for aboveground travel, but its inspiration comes from under the sea. After a decade spent building one-off motorcycles that wouldn’t look out of ...
July 9 (UPI) --An Australian man fishing off the coast of Queensland captured video of a ray leaping out of the water and appearing to briefly take flight to escape a hammerhead shark. Brody Sutton, ...
Studying the filter-feeding mechanism of mobula rays, engineers developed a new design for industrial cross-flow water filters. Research shows the filter-feeders strike a natural balance between ...
From both above and below the water, the spies capture the phenomenon of Mobula rays “vortex feeding.” Spy Mobula ray and spy pelican got up close to the event in the seas of Baja California. ‘Spy in ...
Forming the largest aggregations of rays in the world, still very little is known about this species. They gather in the thousands in huge shoals, and undergo one of the greatest spectacles of nature.
Filter feeders in the animal kingdom showcase a variety of strategies to capture food from water, from the intricate ...
Engineers fabricated a simple water filter modeled after the mobula ray’s plankton-filtering features. Pictured are pieces of the filter. Filter feeders are everywhere in the animal world, from tiny ...