An area of sea where a critically endangered fish lays its eggs has been given marine protected area (MPA) status by the Scottish government. The flapper skate "nursery" is in Skye's Inner Sound. The ...

A ground-breaking study reinforces that flapper skates are beginning to recover in Scotland. The study—led by Rosie Ashworth, a Research Assistant at The Lyell Center for Earth and marine ...

Flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius), the world's largest skate species measuring over two meters in length, live hidden on the rugged seabed around Scotland. Their life in the darkness, deep ...