🤿 A beautiful chance encounter with a Stingray when i swam from the boat to explore the shallows around “Meemu” an uninhabited island, part of Laamu Atoll.

#stingray #flatshark #underwater #nature #marinelife #saltwaterlife #maldives

@whysharksmatter.bsky.social
@iucnshark.bsky.social

The elusive Giant Guitarfish is a relative of sharks and rays 😎
#giantguitarfish
#rhynchobatusdjiddensis
#elusive
#relative
#flatshark 
#gopro

Angel shark overlaid with Red List Index of ray and flat shark ecomorphotype trends

Overfishing of ray & #FlatShark ecomorphotypes:
➡️ rhinobenthic ecomorphotype
composed of guitarfishes and wedgefishes,
➡️ aquilopelagic mollusk-crushing
(durophagous) eagle rays, cownose rays & planktivorous devil rays,
➡️ squatinobenthic angel shark ambush predators
🧵11/20

Watch the moment a skate attacks a fisherman's boat off Shetland RNLI technician Paul Hutchison was out at sea at Muckle Roe when the large fish began to ram his boat.

👀 This is a new one, Flapper Skate chomps the side of a boat off Shetland…. Side of the RIB covered in bait gunk?!

#flapperskate #flatshark #marinelife #ukwildlife

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Skate pectoral motion during swimming is mesmerizing! A movie from our fun project with @valedisanto showing undulatory fin movement in the little skate with a traveling “notch” that may stiffen the fin (paper at https://bit.ly/2qJORe8 #locomotion #flatshark #fishsci

Went out fishing this morning w/ my dad & 13yo. Kid caught & released the biggest #flatshark (Raja binoculata) I've ever seen!