A massive, silent shadow passes over a diver exploring a coral reef 100 miles from land in the Gulf of Mexico. Phew! It’s not a shark, it’s a baby manta ray, frolicking in the diver’s air bubbles in ...

A giant manta ray was captured off Panama City Beach, Florida under a permit for international display at SeaWorld Abu Dhabi. While "threatened" under the ESA, not "endangered," the manta ray's ...

A new species of Atlantic manta ray, named Mobula yarae, has been formally identified thanks to an international research collaboration. Using integrative taxonomy, which combines genetic analysis and ...

Northrop Grumman has unveiled its prototype unmanned underwater vehicle—the Manta Ray. The drone, which looks like a real manta ray, is an example of biomimicry. The drone will spend a lot of time ...

Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their boat deck. "Let him go," he yelled. "You ought to be ashamed of yourselves ...

Researchers model the motions of groups of manta rays to study how group dynamics affect their propulsion, studying different formations of three manta rays: in tandem, in a triangular setup with one ...

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is home to a bright pink reef manta ray that stands out from his peers thanks to his bubblegum shade. The flashy ray was recently caught on camera by wildlife ...

A nursery for giant oceanic manta rays — a furtive relative of the more flamboyant shark — has been discovered in the saltwater border of Palm Beach County in a study scientists say is a first step to ...

Florida’s wildlife agency has temporarily suspended licenses that allow aquariums to capture threatened sharks and rays as it weighs permanent changes to its rules, according to a letter made public ...