In a new study documented in Conservation Biology, scientists documented a contemporary tool they designed to save the ...

Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fishing nets every year. A simple sorting grid could help save them.

A manta ray nicknamed ''Freckles'' by locals in Australia figured out a way to get help when she got injured: approach some divers. Jack Whilton, an underwater photographer and guide, was diving with ...

Scientists have found that oceanic manta rays routinely make extreme dives of more than 1,200 meters – three-quarters of a ...

This giant manta ray seems like the ultimate monster of the deep, with its huge gaping mouth apparently ready to devour anything in its path. But don't worry, the tiny blue fish in this picture - ...

PANAMA CITY — The sun had just finished rising when Whitfield Roberts came upon the largest manta ray he had ever seen just beyond Phillips inlet on Saturday morning. It was, he said, likely between ...

When Freckles the manta ray approached divers Jake Wilton and Monty Halls in Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, they were shocked to see fishing hooks embedded under her right eye. More surprising was ...

Blame it on a high demand for non-meat dishes on Holy Week and illegal hunters. A 60-kilo manta ray was confiscated yesterday from a stall in Pasil market in barangay Suba, Cebu City. Illegal fishers, ...

Last week a fisherman in northwestern Peru caught an enormous manta ray, and photos of the dead, bloody animal have angered conservationists around the world. The fishermen accidentally caught the ...