The freckled guitarfish is seldom seen, partly because it is shy, but also because they are quite rare. Scientists believe decades of shrimping may have hurt the population. (Ben Raines/Al.com) Every ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The blackchin guitarfish is a type of shovelnose ray that looks like half shark and half ray. They mainly live in marine and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A critically endangered bowmouth guitarfish named Fender is making his public debut Friday at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the blackchin guitarfish is in critical danger of extinction. The researchers began conducting preliminary visual surveys along ...

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(MENAFN- The Conversation) “Shark!” When you hear this word, especially at the beach, it can conjure up images of bloodthirsty monsters. This summer – particularly on July 14, which is shark awareness ...

In late March and early April of this year, a team of researchers and local fishers caught, sampled and released more than 50 sharks and rays in the Bijagós Archipelago of Guinea-Bissau, including ...

The giant guitarfish, Rhynchobatus djiddensis, can’t blink. Like household goldfishes, this guitar-shaped relative of sharks and rays don’t have moveable eyelids. But if you gently poke one near the ...

The blackchin guitarfish has a name that is only marginally more intriguing than its physiology. At first glance, it looks like a child’s drawing of a half-shark, half-ray creature. Its numbers are ...