Giant oceanic manta ray (Mobula birostris) and scuba diver in San Benedicto Island, Revillagigedo, Mexico. (Photo by: Luis Javier Sandoval/VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) The first ...
In the open ocean, a manta ray's path can seem deliberate, until, without warning, it slips beneath the surface and vanishes into the blue. Hours or days later, it reappears far from where it began.
Oceanic manta rays dive to record depths of 1,250 meters (4,100 feet), according to a first-of-its-kind study to examine in detail the extreme deep-diving behavior of these rays. Researchers tracked ...
Sailors have been known for telling tall tales. So when Terry Kennedy, a now 83-year-old sailor, would talk about swimming with his friend off Mexico’s remote Revillagigedo Islands in the late 1980s, ...
Terms such as mystical, ethereal, and otherworldly attempt to encapsulate the manta’s unique allure. Yet, before experiencing this enchantment firsthand, I would never have imagined the exhilaration ...