The marketing slogan “Save the Bay, Eat a Ray” has been urging Virginians for years to eat cownose rays — considered a plague in the Chesapeake Bay because they gobble up bay scallops, clams and ...

Legislation was introduced Tuesday in Annapolis to end cownose ray fishing contests. In the summer of 2015, 11 News obtained video of the so-called Battle of the Rays fishing contest in which ...

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. Recognizable by ...

Scientists and Chesapeake Bay experts met Thursday to discuss the future of the cownose ray and whether contests using the species should be banned.Shocking doesn't begin to describe the undercover ...

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of ...

They are big creatures, and they travel together in big numbers. Now they're making their annual visit to the Jersey Shore, both annoying and entertaining swimmers. "They're here to stay right now," ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources plans to take pending state legislation to temporarily halt the contest-fishing of cownose rays and public comments about banning cownose ray ...

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 of ...

Cownose rays are no strangers to the Chesapeake Bay – in fact, they’ve been labeled the “bad boys of the bay” for their reputation for hoovering up shellfish en masse, to the dismay of oyster farmers.