Mobula rays are sometimes called flying rays, thanks to their acrobatic leaping. But scientists are not sure exactly why they do it. The rays have large, flat, diamond-shaped bodies and long fins, ...

You would think that animals that can put on an incredible show like the one captured in this amazing YouTube clip would be very well known, but the opposite is true. The footage features the ...

Any way you look at it, it’s kind of sad. I wish I could have been there to whip the gills and guts out of each one; that’s a PhD worth of parasitology right there on the beach! Dozens of large dead ...

Splashes at the surface give an indication of the commotion below. Beneath the waves, a tornado of hundreds of devil rays swirl in a dizzying dance that goes on for hours. "It's amazing to see a ...

Incredible images show a fever of thousands of Mobula rays -- also called devil rays -- swimming in near-perfect formation just off the Mexican shore. The images were taken by ocean photographer Nadia ...

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, mobulas alternate between silent undulation underwater and acrobatic leaps out of it. These magnificent rays are at risk of disappearing due to targeted fishing, being ...

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 ...

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