ORLANDO, Fla. — 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Florida’s wildlife agency has temporarily suspended licenses that allow aquariums to capture threatened sharks and rays as it weighs permanent changes to its rules, according to a letter made public ...

Just a handful of aquariums in the world display manta rays, and Florida is the only U.S. state that allows their harvest. A manta ray is shown in this file photo. The capture of a giant manta ray for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two years before its controversial videotaped capture of a giant manta ray last month, a Florida company seized two more of the ...