Louisiana's ongoing heat wave has sent residents racing to beaches along the Gulf Coast just in time for a lucky few to spot packs of mobula rays, also known as "devil rays," dappling the oceanfront.

FISHREF copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Purchased from the Bruce Collette Endowment for the Fishes Collection. Summary Manta and devil rays are some of the most intriguing ...

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 ...

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, ...

Manta rays and stingrays are some of the most graceful animals in the ocean, as they glide through the water in search of prey. These animals are both cartilaginous fish and have a very similar ...

Ahem,*puts on best David Attenborough impression*: Here, we see a remora hitching a ride on a manta ray. These suckerfish are equipped with mouths made for clinging, but it’s not interested in riding ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Juvenille Atlantic manta ray swimming over sandflat with remora symbionts in South Florida.