FREEPORT, Texas -- MDLR Fishing shared incredible video of a manta ray jumping out of the water off the Freeport jetty about 60 miles south of Houston. The large ray went completely airborne upside ...

Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their boat deck. “Let him go,” he yelled. “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves ...

The state wildlife agency allowing the capture of a threatened species is “inconsistent with Florida’s own legacy of marine conservation,” the lawmakers wrote. Florida is home to a rare manta ray ...

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 ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — A video is blowing up on social media of a protected giant manta ray being taken from the waters off the Florida Panhandle and a South Florida-based company is behind the ...

DUNEDIN, Fla. (WFLA) — Local drone operator John Yanchoris captured a rare sight Saturday evening: a huge manta ray swimming underneath a paddleboarder. John said a marine biologist helped him ...

A group that studies manta rays in Florida has shared disturbing footage of a high-speed vessel plowing over a large manta as it cruised near the surface beyond an inlet. “I was filming a manta ...

This one‘s a juvenile female, according to the Marine Megafauna Foundation. New sea animals are discovered every year, and 2025 is no different. Thanks to conservation biologist Andrea Marshall and ...

The world’s largest rays may be plunging to incredible depths not to hunt, but to find their way through the vast, empty ocean. A new study has revealed that oceanic manta rays—graceful giants with ...