"She really swam back to us and did a 'thank you' circle. She came right between us to our faces, almost giving us a grateful ...

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 ...

Underwater photographers and free divers rescued a mobula ray tangled in fishing rope while being circled by sharks off Baja California. The ray was freed 18 metres below the surface after a ...

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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 ...