A fisherman captured closeup video of a ray using its fins like wings to literally fly away from a hammerhead shark ...

Eating on the fly. Because manta rays are essentially giant moving water filters, researchers from MIT looked to them and other mobula rays (a group that includes mantas and devil rays) for ...

Many sharks and rays are known to breach, leaping fully or partly out of the water. In a recent study, colleagues and I reviewed research on breaching and ranked the most commonly hypothesized ...

Why it matters It takes a lot of energy for a shark or ray to leap out of the water -- especially a massive creature like a basking shark, which can grow up to 40 feet (12 meters) and weigh up to ...

Mobula rays and manta rays are two other species of rays that also jump out of the water off most Australian coasts. University of Queensland's world-class research station on Heron Island ...

The fish do not use their tails to propel through the water or to lash out at potential predators. And although stingray tails have a fearsome reputation for deadly stings, manta tails lack ...

Bill Murtagh owns the Nainoa, and has been taking out small groups for manta tours for about a decade. “There are real life manta wars that goes on,” he said. “We’ll have about 10 of us ...