'Lunging up riverbanks': The mysterious freshwater whipray that's baffling fishers and scientists

Some northern Australian fishers know them as the alien-like creatures that lunge onto riverbanks while chasing fish, but scientists are only just beginning to unravel the mysteries behind the freshwater whipray.Freshwater whiprays are known to lunge onto riverbanks while chasing small fishThe species is the only Australian stingray to live exclusively in fresh and estuarine waters, and has so far been found throughout northern Australian rivers and in Papua New Guinea.

"We don't understand its life cycle, like where is it born? Is it born in an estuary? Does it move back to the coast? Does it mature?" he said. "It's not necessarily rare, but you rarely catch it. We've only caught very low numbers of it," he said.The species has an intriguing way of hunting small fish, such as popeye mullet, which has caught the eye of fishers and scientists.

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