Social media outrage over a viral manta ray collection video from 2025 made it all the way to Tallahassee, as the Florida ...

This 2-ton ocean giant survives on tiny plankton despite reaching widths of over 7 meters across. Giant manta rays glide through the ocean using enormous mouths and specialized feeding structures to ...

Remoras are small suckerfish that cling to sharks, whales, turtles, and manta rays using a built-in suction disc on their ...

Brooke Flammang, a biology professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, told the CBC that these rear-moras could be ...

Florida's FWC changed permitting for capturing threatened marine species like manta rays for public display, requiring ...

Remoras (family Echeneidae) are ray-finned fish that are known to attach themselves to large marine animals, such as whales, ...

Remoras evolved to be clingy. The suction cup on their foreheads allows them to attach to larger animals like fridge magnets.

The practice of “cloacal diving” could help remoras hide from predators—it could also be a feeding strategy or help the fish ...

Manta rays are cartilage fish that can reach an impressive wingspan of about seven meters, and despite their impressive size, are known as "gentle giants" and are not dangerous to humans. Several ...

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 ...