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 ...

Manta rays and stingrays are some of the most graceful animals in the ocean, as they glide through the water in search of prey. These animals are both cartilaginous fish and have a very similar ...

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 ...

Devil's Advocate: You don't have to be a diving demon to relish remarkable rays -- here's how. Courtesy of InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau Resort Forget Miami Beach and Mexico — if you want to ...

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 ...

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, ...

Florida’s wildlife agency has temporarily suspended licenses that allow aquariums to capture threatened sharks and rays as it weighs permanent changes to its rules, according to a letter made public ...