The scientific name of the manta ray is “Manta birostris” and according to Peruvian fisheries experts is a pelagic migratory species. She remains relatively along surface and does not dive ...

Cue Manta birostris. "Just after high tide you'll see a few manta rays turn up," says Guy Stevens, a British marine biologist who's been researching the Maldives mantas for the past three years.

For hundreds of years, the manta ray was universally regarded as a single species, Manta birostris. Then, in 2009, University ...