A Mobula yarae, or Atlantic manta ray, with more vivid colors. For more than 15 years, Marine Megafauna Foundation co-founder Dr. Andrea Marshall suspected that one of the animals she was seeing in ...

You would think that animals that can put on an incredible show like the one captured in this amazing YouTube clip would be very well known, but the opposite is true. The footage features the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers often seek inspiration from natural systems to address technical problems. Manta rays are filter feeders, sifting ...

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 ...