BLUE Planet is back – after film crews spent four years scouring the seas for a fresh cast of mysterious and beautiful, aquatic animals. Here’s your guide to some of the astonishing creatures featured ...
Mobula rays are sometimes called flying rays, thanks to their acrobatic leaping. But scientists are not sure exactly why they do it. The rays have large, flat, diamond-shaped bodies and long fins, ...
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 ...
You would think that animals that can put on an incredible show like the one captured in this amazing YouTube clip would be very well known, but the opposite is true. The footage features the ...
Incredible images show a fever of thousands of Mobula rays -- also called devil rays -- swimming in near-perfect formation just off the Mexican shore. The images were taken by ocean photographer Nadia ...
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 ...