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 ...

A Mobula yarae, or Atlantic manta ray, with more vivid colors. For more than 15 years, Marine Megafauna Foundation co-founder Dr. Andrea Marshall suspected that one of the animals she was seeing in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers often seek inspiration from natural systems to address technical problems. Manta rays are filter feeders, sifting ...

Underwater photographers and free divers rescued a ray tangled in fishing rope – while being circled by sharks. The mobula ray was trapped 18m below the surface, completely wrapped in rope from a ...

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Manta rays are elegantly shaped. They swim by flapping their fins like enormous wings, and their gills filter for plankton with the utmost precision. These creatures have now inspired human ...

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 ...