Scientists have spotted the first clear sign of water from an interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, offering new clues to the ...

It wasn't a shock to find the inquisitive ocean titans along County's coast, but it was a surprise to find only young ones.

The juvenile manta ray named Ozzy by the Florida Manta Project was killed by a boat strike off of Boynton Beach and then fed ...

In “The Last Dive,” director Cody Sheehy follows Terry Kennedy, an ex-Hell’s Angel-turned manta ray conservationist, on a personal journey to Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. After a stint in jail, Kennedy, a ...

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 ...

In July, we told you about a giant manta ray caught off Panama City Beach. The manta ray was sent to Sea World Abu Dhabi after the FWC issued a permit for its capture.

The creature was euthanized after its health declined in a holding tank in the Florida Keys. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in ...

Manta Ray Shark. Image by Tilonaut, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Beneath the ocean’s surface lies a realm of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Just a handful of aquariums in the world display manta rays, and Florida is the only U.S. state that allows their harvest. A manta ray is shown in this file photo. The capture of a giant manta ray for ...