In a video capturing the birth, the baby manta, rolled up like a tube, came sliding out of the mother manta, then quickly spread its fins and began swimming around. The event marks the first birth of ...

Manta rays and stingrays are some of the most graceful animals in the ocean, as they glide through the water in search of prey. These animals are both cartilaginous fish and have a very similar ...

There are over 600 species of rays, including stingrays, skates, manta rays, and sawfish, and they come in many sizes. Rays are cartilaginous fish belonging to the class Chondrichthyes, which also ...

Crittercams are revealing new secrets of the depths—offering scientists insight into how rays, sharks, whales, and other marine animals behave when we’re not around. An oceanic manta ray outfitted ...

It turns out reef manta rays are even more vulnerable than we thought—but scientists say we’re now in a better position to save them. Reef manta rays (pictured, an animal in Hawaii) are considered ...

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 ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. For more than four years, marine biologist Madalena Pereira Cabral has been dedicated to investigating and understanding the movements of giant ...

Sailors have been known for telling tall tales. So when Terry Kennedy, a now 83-year-old sailor, would talk about swimming with his friend off Mexico’s remote Revillagigedo Islands in the late 1980s, ...

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 ...