A St. Petersburg lawmaker is trying to slam the door on Florida’s tiny but controversial trade in federally protected sea life after a viral video showed a giant manta ray hauled out of the Gulf off ...

Northrop Grumman’s Manta Ray is a new extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle designed to operate in the deep ocean for months without human support. Developed under DARPA’s Manta Ray program, the ...

Rick Patrick rick@greenepublishing.com After finishing the month of February with a five-game winning streak, the Manta Ray ladies softball team at Florida State College in Jacksonville (FSCJ) ...

Plucked from Florida waters and sent to Sea World on the other side of the world. Now there’s a bill in the Florida ...

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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 ...

MIAMI, FL – A new study from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science and the Marine Megafauna Foundation finds that young Caribbean manta rays (Mobula yarae ...

Gareth J. Fraser is an Associate Professor at the University of Florida, and receives funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The world’s oceans are home to an exquisite variety of sharks ...

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 ...

Oceanic manta rays dive to record depths of 1,250 meters (4,100 feet), according to a first-of-its-kind study to examine in detail the extreme deep-diving behavior of these rays. Researchers tracked ...

Photographer Josh Cogan captures the quiet power of Hawaii’s ocean life, revealing how resilience shows itself in nature—and in us. A manta ray glides silently through the glowing waters off Hawaii’s ...