A research team led by Prof. HE Shunping from the Institute of Hydrobiology (IHB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered through genome sequencing that the non-teleost ray-finned ...

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.

The long structures seen in manta rays and their relatives function as an early warning system, rather than a defensive weapon. By Jack Tamisiea With hornlike facial fins and diamond-shape bodies that ...

Hugo Dutel is in the Bristol Palaeobiology Group, School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK, and in the Department of Engineering, University of Hull, Hull, UK. Ray-finned ...

AMHERTS, Mass. – A family of fishes, called the cichlids, in Africa’s Lake Malawi is helping researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst to refine our understanding of how evolution works. ...