Giant Oceanic Manta Ray Facts, Pictures, Video & In-Depth Information

Five fascinating facts about manta rays

Manta Ray Facts

Giant manta becomes the first manta ray to be listed as an endangered species — Marine Megafauna Foundation

Swimming with manta rays could help save them

We are excited to expand our research and conservation work with manta rays, the world's largest rays, in several new locations to fill data gaps in distribution, populations, and behavior and better promote their conservation. These amazingly smart oceanic travelers further possess the largest brain to body ratio of any elasmobranch, and yet are highly vulnerable to exploitation due to their only producing one young (pup) after a year's gestation, often with a reproductive pause of several year