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 ...

Manta rays are large rays belonging to the genus Manta, with larger Manta rays ranging from 23 ft in width to the smaller one reaching 18 ft . Both have triangular pectoral fins, hornshaped cephalic ...

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 group that studies manta rays in Florida has shared disturbing footage of a high-speed vessel plowing over a large manta as it cruised near the surface beyond an inlet. “I was filming a manta ...

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 ...

In a letter, the head of Florida’s wildlife agency said rule changes would be considered next year. A manta ray is sighted approximately 14 nautical miles offshore Cape Canaveral in Florida on ...

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 ...