Divers recently encountered a large manta ray off Indonesia’s Nusa Penida coast with a massive chunk of tissue missing from ...

Okinawa is one of Japan’s best-known manta ray habitats, but researchers say basic questions remain about how the animals ...

This captain thought he'd seen it all over the last 17 years, until this gentle ocean giant left him speechless.

Earlier this summer, a viral video ignited a wave of outrage across Florida: Five men capture and hoist a live giant manta ray from the waters offshore Panama City Beach and onto their boat. Almost ...

From bird flocking to fish schooling, many biological systems exhibit some type of collective motion, often to improve performance and conserve energy. Compared to other swimmers, manta rays are ...

A Mobula yarae, or Atlantic manta ray, with more vivid colors. For more than 15 years, Marine Megafauna Foundation co-founder Dr. Andrea Marshall suspected that one of the animals she was seeing in ...

Just a handful of aquariums in the world display manta rays, and Florida is the only U.S. state that allows their harvest. A manta ray is shown in this file photo. The capture of a giant manta ray for ...

WASHINGTON, May 6, 2025 – From bird flocking to fish schooling, many biological systems exhibit some type of collective motion, often to improve performance and conserve energy. Compared to other ...

For giant reef manta rays that call the shallow waters of Papua New Guinea home, radical weather is nothing new. The island’s ...

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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 ...