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I can still clearly remember that first stingray encounter, even though I was only nine years old, snorkelling in a bay north of Sydney, Australia.
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The manta rays in Kona waters belong to the Mobula alfredi species. These are reef mantas and, unlike other species, these mantas do not migrate. They spend their lives in the coastal waters of Hawaii.
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In contrast to sharks and rays, reef manta rays move in groups at cleaning sites and feeding grounds in shallow waters. Over 500 of these groups were studied over five years in Raja Ampat Marine Park in Indonesia.
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One pregnant female was recorded to have traveled 200km from Tofo to Bazaruto Archipelago and back—a total round-trip of 400km.
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The team of researchers is studying reef manta rays in the Maldives in south Asia, where the largest populations are found.
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Just 48 hours of exposure to the crude oil originating from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 was enough to affect the olfactory senses of Atlantic stingrays, according to new research.
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Besides inspiring the logo of our very own X-Ray Magazine, the stingray is also the inspiration for a new type of tissue-based soft robotics being developed by a team led by bioengineering Professor Ali Khademhosseini, from UCLA.
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A new study, published in the journal Biological Conservation, has found that a quarter of pregnant sharks, skates, and rays lose their pups when fished.
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Scientists usually measure shark age by counting growth rings in their vertebrae. These rings are often assumed to show age in the same way as the rings of a tree.
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In the study, the results of which was published in Scientific Reports, 129 samples were collected from markets and shops in Canada, China and Sri Lanka. The researchers then used DNA barcoding to identify the species.
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Their inky backs boldly patterned with white spots, spotted eagle rays are among the most graceful and photogenic fish in the sea. However, new research has revealed these striking patterns are not only beautiful but unique.
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Reef mantas had been known to patrol that beach for many years, but all attempts to try and interact with them were random at best—maybe you would see one or more, maybe you wouldn’t.
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X-RAY MAG: How did you become interested in studying the behavior of manta rays?
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The Indonesian government on Friday announced that manta rays within the archipelago's 5.8 million square kilometers (2.2 million square miles) of ocean will be protected from fishing and export.
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These impulses are transmitted in complex patterns which researchers—after painstaking investigation aided by decoders and software from the intelligence community—have now demonstrated illicit an underlying grammatical structure not unlike that o
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In 2009, Mote Marine Laboratory with the National Aquarium in Baltimore initiated a conservation research program on the life history, reproduction, and population status of the elasmobranch Aetobatus narinari, commonly known as the spotted eagle
,We don't know if the rays in the Keys come from Southwest Florida, or perhaps even Mexico or Cuba, and we don't know if rays in the Keys favor particular reefs
—Mote biologist Kim Hull
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