Steps to protect one of Scotland's rarest fish could become permanent under Scottish government plans. Flapper skate, which belong to the shark family, can weigh as much as a baby elephant and live ...

A marine protected area (MPA) put in place earlier this year to safeguard a critically endangered fish has been expanded. Flapper skate lay eggs in the Red Rocks and Longay area of Skye's Inner Sound.

THEY swim at depths of more than 3,000ft and were once a common sight until they were overfished to the brink of extinction. Now the future of the critically endangered flapper has been given renewed ...

Video shows the rare fish, which is part of the shark family, ramming Paul Hutchison’s boat - leaving ‘dozens of teeth’ in its inflatable tubes - off the coast of Shetland. Heroic residents help out ...

The flapper skate is critically endangered and are top predators and their absence, like taking wolves from a forest, can lead to impacts cascading through the ecosystem. It is hard to imagine that a ...

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