Commonly known as the cownose ray, Rhinoptera bonasus is a species of ray found in the western ... [+] Atlantic Ocean, from the Gulf of Mexico to the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.

The cownose ray's tail functions as a sensory organ, acting like a fine-tuned antenna. Dissections and CT scans revealed tiny holes on the tail connected to a lateral line canal, a sensory system ...

A pair of marine biologists at Harvard University has found that one of the main purposes of the cownose ray's tail is to serve as a fine-tuned antenna. In their study published in the Proceedings ...

In a paper published on Wednesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, a pair of researchers analyzed tails belonging to cownose rays, a smaller relative of manta rays.

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Aerial footage captured the jaw-dropping moment when thousands upon thousands of cownose rays gathered in Florida last month. The video, captured by kayak company See ...