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taxonomytournament · 7 hours

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Taxonomy Tournament: Chordata

Myxiniformes. This order is known as hagfish, jawless fish which release slime from their skin to protect themselves from predators. They are the only known living species to have a skull but no vertebral column.

Myliobatiformes. This order of batoids includes stingrays and manta rays.

#animals #biology #polls #poll tournament #zoology #hagfish #stingrays #manta rays #fish #rays #Myxiniformes #Myliobatiformes #0xbv0x34

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great-and-small · 2 years

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Wait long enough in a mangrove swamp and you’ll see something magical. In this case, a small school of golden cownose rays.

#GalapagosFauna #Galapagos Week 2022 #golden cownose ray #rays #animals #wildlife #marine life #sea life #marine biology #fauna #mangrove #peaceful

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marinememes · 11 months

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Today is Wet Beast Wednesday!

Today’s wet beast is: Bowmouth Guitarfish

Olive’s wet beast fact: these absolutely shaped creatures are also known as the Shark Ray. Are they a shark or a ray? Who fuckin knows! (They are rays, not sharks)

Stay tuned for more Wet Beast Wednesdays!

#bowmouth guitarfish #shark ray #wet beast wednesday #aquarium #marine biology #sharks #fish #rays #oceanposting #sea creatures #ocean #marine life #sea skate #science #zoology

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protectoursharks · 5 months

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I heard that sharks and rays are super closely related. Are skates an approximate bridging “group” between them? Or are they outside of both groups

They are all really closely related- there in all the same class known as Chondrichthyes, or cartilaginous fish. Sharks evolved first, approximately 350 million years ago during the Carboniferous period. Skates and ray came around at approximately the same time as each other 150 million years ago during the Jurassic period.

So skates aren't really a "bridging group", they're actually most closely related to rays!

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knuppitalism-with-ue · 1 year

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Another sketch brought to you by #Paleostream

Zhuchengtyrannus, swimming with some rays. Note that this piece was done months before the first Prehistoric Planet trailers came out.

#paleoart #sciart #paleostream #zhuchengtyrannus #prehistoric planet #dinosaur #tyrannosaur #rays #swimming

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florealegiardini · 6 months

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On the edge on a sunny day. ~ Dmitry Alekseev

#Winter wonderland #winter #forest #nature #edit: nature #rays #my edit

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sitting-on-me-bum · 4 days

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In this study, 122 devil rays individuals were observed circling in a "courtship vortex"—the first time this behavior has ever been seen during mating. For five hours, this vortex of animals swirled as courtship groups joined and exited the formation.

VIDEO BY SHAWN HEINRICHS

#shawn heinrichs #photographer #national geographic #video #devil rays #rays #marine #nature

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crohniewitch · 7 months

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#memes #marine biology #animal memes #fish memes #rays #marine biology memes

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illustratus · 3 days

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Studies into the Past by Laurent Grasso

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somuchfor-moondust · 5 months

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WAIT

WHATS HE DOING????

#marine biology #rays #ray #underside of a ray #just a baby

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fishyfishyfishtimes · 6 months

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Daily fish fact #616

Sawfish!

Their most noticeable feature is their elongated rostrum, a structure formed from cartilage which has several rostral teeth along the edges. The rostrum is used for many things, like locating prey through electroreception, to slash and stun prey animals in both substrate and the water column, and even for self defence.

#i chose this picture because its silly #fish #fishfact #fish facts #fishblr #marine life #marine biology #marine animals #sea animals #sea creatures #sea life #sawfish #ray #rays

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antiqueanimals · 2 months

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