A new global assessment estimates more than 259,000 manta and devil rays (genus Mobula) die in fisheries each year, far exceeding previous figures, with researchers warning that the true toll is ...

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray is an extra large autonomous underwater vehicle designed to travel vast distances, operate at great depths and even hibernate on the seafloor to conserve energy. Inspired ...

Giant oceanic manta ray (Mobula birostris) and scuba diver in San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo, Mexico. (Photo by: Luis Javier Sandoval/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The first ...

A juvenile manta ray named Ozzy was found dead near the Boynton Beach Inlet from a boat strike. Scientists are concerned that boat traffic in the narrow, fast-moving inlet may pose a threat to the ...

A giant manta ray was captured off Panama City Beach, sparking public outrage and national attention. The capture was permitted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for an aquarium ...

In “The Last Dive,” director Cody Sheehy follows Terry Kennedy, an ex-Hell’s Angel-turned manta ray conservationist, on a personal journey to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. After a stint in jail, Kennedy, a ...

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 ...

The state wildlife agency allowing the capture of a threatened species is “inconsistent with Florida’s own legacy of marine conservation,” the lawmakers wrote. Florida is home to a rare manta ray ...

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, ...

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 ...

There’s a third species of manta ray gracefully gliding through the seas, a recent study has confirmed. Researchers have named the newly described species, found in the western Atlantic, Mobula yarae ...

The new species lives in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, from the eastern United States down to Brazil. Bryant Turffs Andrea Marshall has dedicated her life to studying manta rays ...