Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These creatures have been unfairly treated as scapegoats for dwindling clam populations in regions like the Chesapeake Bay. It’s ...

Each summer, schools of cownose rays migrate up the Chesapeake Bay to birth pups and mate, their wings rising like shark fins and startling swimmers. The ancient species attracted little interest ...

Every summer, cownose rays stream into Chesapeake Bay to mate and give birth to their pups. In autumn they disappear, presumably to migrate south, but no one knew for certain where they spent winter.

The marketing slogan “Save the Bay, Eat a Ray” has been urging Virginians for years to eat cownose rays — considered a plague in the Chesapeake Bay because they gobble up bay scallops, clams and ...

Scientists and Chesapeake Bay experts met Thursday to discuss the future of the cownose ray and whether contests using the species should be banned.Shocking doesn't begin to describe the undercover ...

Tails aren’t just animal accessories. They usually carry specific functions. But when it comes to rays, their function has been somewhat mysterious until now. Cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) — like ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources plans to take pending state legislation to temporarily halt the contest-fishing of cownose rays and public comments about banning cownose ray ...

It’s easy to forget about the legion of mysterious creatures that live in the ocean. That is, until you are right on top of them. Like schools of fish, some creatures, such as cownose rays, travel and ...

Every summer, cownose rays stream into Chesapeake Bay to mate and give birth to their pups. When autumn comes, they disappear—presumably to migrate south, but no one knew for certain where they spent ...