Commonly known as the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus is a species ... especially during warmer months. They are bottom-feeding animals, primarily consuming shellfish, crabs, and other ...

A pair of marine biologists at Harvard University has found that one of the main purposes of the cownose ray's tail is to serve ... digging in the mud at the bottom of the sea for food.

It has a caudal synarcual, or a specialized adaptation of the ray’s skeletal near the back, which keeps the tail stiff and thereby minimizes the sound of water as it goes about sensing its ...

In the cownose ray, the lateral line runs the length of the tail and branches off to pores in the fish’s skin, which they likely use to process information about their environment. By contrast ...

which allows fans to pet and feed the cownose rays. In addition, the likelihood of a ball actually hitting a ray that is scooting along the bottom of the tank and still be traveling fast enough to ...