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 ...

Andrea Marshall has dedicated her life to studying manta rays, learning everything she possibly can about the graceful marine creatures. So, when she spotted an unusual-looking manta ray off the ...

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 ...

A nine-year study from south Florida suggests juvenile Atlantic manta rays may be doing far more ecological work than we ever ...

There are over 600 species of rays, including stingrays, skates, manta rays, and sawfish, and they come in many sizes. Rays are cartilaginous fish belonging to the class Chondrichthyes, which also ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new species lives in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Atlantic, from the eastern United States down to Brazil. Bryant Turffs Andrea Marshall has dedicated her life to studying manta rays ...