Forget Miami Beach and Mexico — if you want to swim with massive, magnificent, mysterious mobulids (the fish family that ...

And now they are listed as "vulnerable" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Why is that? Well, while studies have shown that manta ray watching is a financially lucrative form of ...

THOOTHUKUDI: A country boat fisherman from Periyathalai caught a giant oceanic manta ray weighing a whopping 1,080 kg on ...

The largest ray in the world (up to 8m wide!), the giant manta is a graceful and gentle ... finding their way by following topographical maps using ocean landmarks, such as seamounts.

Alex Mustard For a reef manta ray like this one swooping in the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, motion is life. Like many shark species, a manta ray must constantly move to avoid sinking and to ...

which make this an ocean on the edge. The manta is the largest of the rays and can weigh up to 1.5 tonnes. One of the world's largest manta ray populations is found off the southern coast of ...

The oceanic whitetip shark has suffered population declines of up to 88 percent in the Atlantic. Populations of the giant manta ray, which has a wingspan of up to 29 feet, have plummeted by up to 95 ...

the trust's website states. In 2021 and 2022, the Eagle Ray took home first place. In 2023, the Oceanic Manta Ray won and last year, the Spotty took home the crown.