Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In July, we told you about a giant manta ray caught off Panama City Beach. The manta ray was sent to Sea World Abu Dhabi after the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...