Dwindling natural habitats are causing a significant decline in certain seahorse species. To bolster populations, researchers in Australia are building seahorse hotels and leaving the lights on.

Above the shores of prehistoric seas and lakes, pterosaurs roamed the skies. They were feathered creatures that ranged in ...

Júlia Chaumel and George Lauder dissected multiple cownose ray specimens to learn more about their tail anatomy. Stingrays inject venom from their barbed tails into hapless victims. But other ...

Cats are one of the most captivating creatures in the animal kingdom. They are graceful yet incredible hunters, seemingly ...

Anatomy and hypothesized function of the tail of Rhinoptera bonasus. (a) Vertebral morphology ... [+] variation along the tail. At the base (proximal to the body), the vertebral column is formed ...

To protect them, hours before the show starts, riders wrap their horses' tails in fire-resistant tape and braid their manes. Some apply a glaze on the animals' mane to prevent them from burning as ...

It turns out that, like the antennas on an insect or crustacean, a ray uses its tail to sense its environment. The inside of a myliobatid stingray tail is remarkably complex, the scientists learned.

SAN BARTOLOME DE PINARES, Spain (AP) — On a chilly January night, hundreds of people gathered on the steep and narrow cobblestoned streets of San Bartolome de Pinares — population 500 — to ...

Yet these behemoths’ most puzzling feature is a whip-like tail that can measure as long as the rest of the fish’s body. Why mantas and related rays have such long tails has long been a mystery.