Video showing the capture of a giant manta ray in Florida for display at Sea World Abu Dhabi has inspired a bill to ban the practice with threatened species.

“I mean, he was in pain. That animal was in pain," a witness alleged of the aquatic animal Angel Saunders has been a writer at PEOPLE since 2023. She previously worked at iHeartMedia, IndieWire and ...

Denis Richard watched five men heave a giant manta ray from the waters off Panama City Beach and plop it into a pool on their boat deck. “Let him go,” he yelled. “You ought to be ashamed of yourselves ...

New records have revealed that a Florida company snatched a rare manta ray from the wild and kept it in captivity until it had to be euthanized. Last month a video of a Florida fishing group capturing ...

Video showing the capture of a giant manta ray in Florida for display at Sea World Abu Dhabi has inspired a bill to ban the ...

A giant manta ray was captured off Panama City Beach, sparking public outrage and national attention. The capture was permitted by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for an aquarium ...

Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the rare creatures for SeaWorld Abu Dhabi, one of which died in captivity, ...