Divers recently encountered a large manta ray off Indonesia’s Nusa Penida coast with a massive chunk of tissue missing from ...

In a study published recently, a team of researchers referred to this newly observed behavior as 'cloacal diving'.

For giant reef manta rays that call the shallow waters of Papua New Guinea home, radical weather is nothing new. The island’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Large Oceanic Manta Ray (Manta birostris) with background SCUBA diver bubbles in a blue, tropical ocean (Andaman sea).© Richard ...

This captain thought he'd seen it all over the last 17 years, until this gentle ocean giant left him speechless.

A breathtaking underwater encounter captured the moment four manta rays appeared to perform a graceful dance as they circled ...

Manta rays are cartilage fish that can reach an impressive wingspan of about seven meters, and despite their impressive size, are known as "gentle giants" and are not dangerous to humans. Several ...

Nature can be many things: beautiful, strange, ever-changing, and downright bizarre. In the marine world, many species benefit one another. These mutualistic relationships can often help both species ...

New research led by the University of the Sunshine Coast has found that reef manta rays are diving deep in storm events to find food and stay alive. As World Environment Day is celebrated around the ...

The Animal That Reads the Earth A reef manta ray tagged off the Maldives in 2015 travelled over 1,100 kilometres in a single ...

Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, has developed a manta ray-inspired submersible capable of operating at depths of up to two kilometers beneath the water surface.