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

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

After reviewing more than a decade of underwater footage, researchers have documented remoras, the suckerfish famous for ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Last week a fisherman in northwestern Peru caught an enormous manta ray ...

New sea animals are discovered every year, and 2025 is no different. Thanks to conservation biologist Andrea Marshall and her team, a new manta ray has been identified, joining just two other manta ...

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 ...

Collaborative research on giant oceanic manta rays off the Ecuadorian coast has definitively identified more individuals than any other location in the world, with over 2,800 mantas identified during ...

Earlier this summer, a viral video ignited a wave of outrage across Florida: Five men capture and hoist a live giant manta ray from the waters offshore Panama City Beach and onto their boat. Almost ...

Dustin Heath was on the 91st Street Fishing Pier around 1 p.m. Monday when he noticed a dark, flat creature gliding near the surface. "It seemed to be a juvenile, and I'd estimate it at around 6-8 ...