The state wildlife agency allowing the capture of a threatened species is “inconsistent with Florida’s own legacy of marine conservation,” the lawmakers wrote.

This is an animal that is being taken from its natural habitat to captivity, and someone is making a profit off it,” said state Rep. LIndsay Cross, D-St. Petersburg.

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of ...

To understand manta rays, the ANGARI Foundation partnered with a team of research groups to create the first-ever accurate, 3D manta ray model.

The autonomous underwater craft — dubbed the “Manta Ray” because its slick design mirrors the ocean-dwelling animal — was reportedly produced as part of a Navy project to develop ...