Megill has hit two #Rays batters today. Stop that! #Mets

#MLB #baseball @baseball

Mussel power: how an offshore #shellfish farm is boosting marine life https://theconversation.com/mussel-power-how-an-offshore-shellfish-farm-is-boosting-marine-life-251192

"Over many years, the studies have shown how some #mussels from the farm have fallen to the seabed and regenerated lost shell reefs. The farm has also boosted populations of #crabs, #lobsters, #scallops, #starfish, #fish, conger #eels, #sharks and #rays... By creating structure and excluding the damaging effects of bottom-towed fishing, offshore #MusselFarms can restore degraded #fishing grounds"

So my Korean homeboy Ha-Seong Kim (aka Awesome Kim) is headed to Rays on a healthy 2-yr $29mm contract. Good for him! I hope he recovers from his surgery quickly and return to his stellar 2023 form over there.

(I was quietly hoping that Padres would retain him or that Giants would pick him up so that he stays in NL West, but oh well)

Cownose #ray uses its tail as a fine-tuned antenna https://phys.org/news/2025-01-cownose-ray-tail-fine-tuned.html

A hydrodynamic antenna: novel lateral line system in the tail of myliobatid #stingrays https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.2192

"the tail is too thin to propel the ray through the water or even to control its direction... it serves as an antenna of sorts, allowing the ray to feel water movement, such as that made by a #shark following behind"

"New evidence spells massive trouble for world’s sharks, rays and chimaeras"

#Sharks #Rays #Animals

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-evidence-spells-massive-trouble-for-worlds-sharks-rays-and-chimaeras/

エイ!

Rays!

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Rays!

7 days left to bid on one of 31 art works made to raise money for endangered #sharks and #rays, following their two-year UK exhibition tour.

Bronze by Abigail Burt showing Longhorned Pygmy Devil Rays. Cast by the artist in London.

https://superstars-auctions.com/sharktrustauction/bDoyNzcwOTpz

A statement from the #Bucs on the #Rays stadium news:

#ThrowbackThursday Sometimes you see cool things underwater. A fever of Eagle Rays flying in formation from 2021 in Oahu waters. Your #sealife #photooftheday

Where Rays will play in 2025 one of many questions after Trop damage

ST. PETERSBURG — The first week since Hurricane Milton shredded the Tropicana Field roof on its wicked path of destruction through west central Florida has not provided much clarity on how severely the Rays will be impacted.

#TropicanaField #TBRays #Rays #TampaBay #StPetersburg #Milton #Hurricane #MLB

https://www.tampabay.com/hurricane/2024/10/15/where-rays-will-play-2025-one-many-questions-after-trop-damage/

#Sharks and #rays leap out of the water for many reasons, including feeding, courtship and communication https://theconversation.com/sharks-and-rays-leap-out-of-the-water-for-many-reasons-including-feeding-courtship-and-communication-238487

A review of elasmobranch breaching behavior: why do sharks and rays propel themselves out of the water into the air? https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10641-024-01584-5

"It takes a lot of energy for a #shark or #ray to leap out of the water – especially a massive creature like a #BaskingShark (12 meters, 4.5 tonnes)... breaching must serve some useful purpose."

@avaloniaui #dotnet #shaders #Underwater #Sun
#Rays

END SHARK NETS IN NSW

What started as a misguided attempt to reduce the risk of shark bite for public safety has turned into a drawn-out and devastating force on our #MarineLife. The NSW Department of Primary Industries still deploys #SharkNets at 51 beaches from #Newcastle to #Wollongong every year.

#Dolphins, #rays, #turtles and #sharks are routinely entangled and drown – the vast majority of animals caught are not considered in any way dangerous.

https://sharkchampions.org.au/end-shark-nets-in-nsw/

#SaveOurSeas

#silentsunday

Saisonfinale für die C3 #Rays vom @hsvcheerleading: Platz sieben mit 90,09 Punkten. Bei 26 Startern eine gute Platzierung, aber es wäre mehr möglich gewesen. Nächste Saison geht’s weiter. #letsgorays #summeralllevelchampionship #cheerleading #hsv #hamburg