Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of ...

A new species of Atlantic manta ray, named Mobula yarae, has been formally identified thanks to an international research ...

My manta ray quest began the next morning from Handhu – a fibreglass “dhoni” carrying 12 divers – at a dive site called Bobana Thila.

Now, it’s official: Marshall and her colleagues have identified a new species called Mobula yarae, or the Atlantic manta ray.

The newly described Mobula yarae joins a vulnerable group of rays facing threats like bycatch, boat strikes, and habitat loss ...

The manta rays are unaffected by my presence, cruising past me with inches to spare, now swooping, now spiralling in the water column, crossing and crisscrossing each other in a dizzying dance.

Manta rays are considered 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, which categorises them in its red list. Their primary threat is overfishing.

The graceful manta ray that this new robot is based on. Image: Rich Carey/Shutterstock Researchers have developed a new, tiny manta ray robot that could one day roam lakes in the hunt for pollution.

Reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) gather in large numbers around Raja Ampat, in the Indonesian province of West Papua, to feed on zooplankton and be cleaned by smaller fish. These gatherings are ...

A majestic manta ray swims in a sea of plastic waste in a shocking photo taken by a scuba diver. Environmentalist Brooke Pyke said the gentle sea creatures were unable to separate their food from ...

The 11-foot male reef manta ray is the only pink specimen of his species known to exist and was first identified in 2015. He got his name from the bumbling detective from the famed Pink Panther ...