Manta rays are cartilage fish that can reach an impressive wingspan of about seven meters, and despite their impressive size, ...

Wildlife vacations hold a top spot on many travelers’ bucket lists. Observing animals as they eat, play, and live in their natural habitats brings us closer to nature, highlighting how we’re all ...

The Atlantic manta ray, long thought to be part of a wider species of elusive giant rays but reclassified just this summer as one that nurses its pups off Florida’s coast, holds another secret: its ...

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 ...

As Beth Faulkner bobbed up and down in the Maldives’ Hanifaru Bay, she did some quick mental math. “There’s probably about 100,” she said in reference to the number of reef manta rays swimming just ...

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 ...

Using robotic fins, researchers at the University of California, Riverside have learned how stingrays are able to swim with impressive control. These insights could help underwater vehicles avoid ...