Cownose Ray "Fever" off Long Island May Signal Climate-Driven Northward Migration Shift

Drone footage captured August 7, 2026, off Southampton, NY, shows thousands of cownose rays in a formation called a "fever." Florida State biologist Dean Grubbs says warming ocean temperatures likely drove the rays farther north, citing blacktip sharks' similar decades-long range shift from North Carolina to New England as precedent.