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She is the daughter of Michaela E. Manta and Victor Manta of Manhattan.
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Manta rays: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is considering new protections for certain manta rays.
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The credits scene shows Manta and Shin making a pact: Shin will help Manta find out Aquaman's true identity and repair Manta's laser beam-firing helmet and Manta will reveal the secret of Atlantis to him.
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Early in the movie, Black Manta and Aquaman clash after Aquaman rescues a Russian sub that Manta tries to hijack.
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The NMFS announced Monday it is initiating a status review to determine whether giant manta rays and reef manta rays are endangered.
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Manta rays can wing span can reach a length of 23 feet, so this was by no means the largest manta ray out there, but still a massive sea creature.
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I recently set out to explore the Manta-Manaus Corridor, a multimodal trade route being built that will connect two bustling port cities: Manta in Ecuador and Manaus in Brazil.
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What he found instead, according to a new study published in Marine Biology, was something he had barely seen in his seven years of manta ray research: a juvenile manta ray.
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But with that said, it wouldn't be too strange, considering how easily Aquaman brushes Manta aside in Aquaman, for Manta and Shin to become the secondary villains in a future movie.
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Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru arranges for guests to shadow a manta ray scientist for a day, freediving with marine biologists from the Manta Trust on board a research vessel.
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The manta rays had an average wingspan of 7.38 feet.
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Andrea Marshall snaps a selfie with a giant manta ray.
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Manta rays also have the largest brain of any fish.
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Black Manta ain't got nothing like that, that's my brother.
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With Meghan's Manta Kiss Ring (which retails for either $180 or $600 depending on whether she went for the gold-plated or solid gold version), a percentage of proceeds are donated to the Manta Trust.
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A juvenile manta ray at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
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Oceanic manta rays can reach an adult wingspan of 23 feet.
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The singer, 44, recorded "Manta Ray" for the documentary Racing Extinction.
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Fishermen auction the morning's catch of swordfish, tuna and manta rays.
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"Kicking off with masturbation is such a smart thing," Manta says.
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For its poll, Manta surveyed 1,575 small business owners between Dec.
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Giant manta rays are a threatened species, the agency said Wednesday.
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Finally, when is a manta ray better than a Brita pitcher?
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Sea-dwelling manta rays may be endangered, the federal government suspects.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced Monday in the Federal Register it is considering listing the giant manta ray and reef manta ray as threatened or endangered species, pending the result of its status review.
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Many Chinese marine parks feature whale sharks, belugas, dolphins and manta rays.
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The nursery could prove useful for better understanding baby manta rays, he said.
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But the manta rays did exhibit self-directed behaviors consistent with self-awareness.
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But the agency declined to list reef manta rays as endangered or threatened.
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In Manta, the airport was closed after the control tower was severely damaged.
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Apparently, it's Black Manta, but I really did have to look that up.
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Rays: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will not protect certain manta rays.
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But the NMFS declined to list reef manta rays as endangered or threatened.
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"Our Manta collection supports the Manta Trust, a U.K based charity whose global work focuses on ray and marine habitat research and conservation," explains the jeweler, who also supports the plights of rhinos, sharks and the coral reef through her collections.
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The world's first confirmed manta ray nursery was found thanks to some good luck.
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Stewart's discovery of the manta ray nursery around the research site fills that hole.
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Manta surveyed 1,099 small-business owners in April in the poll on its site.
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The cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales, a tourist destination, saw the most devastation.
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Manta came out as bisexual in October 2018 in a video posted on Instagram.
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In 2014, the country announced a 2.3 million square mile sanctuary for manta rays.
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In the film, Black Manta is treated as a secondary villain to King Orm.
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It all began with a simple question: Why don't manta rays clear their throats?
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Rays: The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is proposing to protect giant manta rays.
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Then we see him get an under-the-table weapons upgrade from King Orm, who believes he can use Manta to do his dirty work and dispatch Aquaman — Manta uses his new weaponry to fashion a laser beam-firing helmet for himself.
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"Please come pick up the dead civilians that I left for you," the manta mocked.
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The researchers dug into 25 years of recorded manta data with the sanctuary employees' help.
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But the instant I saw a manta ray shooting laser beams, I was on-board.
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It's not just for people in long-distance relationships, says professional sex educator Ashley Manta.
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The other nominees include "Simple Song #3" from Youth and "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction.
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The resort the couple were staying at, the Manta Resort, confirmed Weber's death to CNN.
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Scientists are studying the exceptionally efficient way manta rays filter their plankton food from seawater.
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Manta is floating unconscious in the sea and gets rescued by men on a boat.
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When Manta wakes up, it's revealed that his rescuer is Doctor Stephen Shin (Randall Park).
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The most spectacular was a manta ray feeding station in the middle of the sea.
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"That same grouper later swallowed a stingray — or manta ray," Michelle recalled her husband telling her.
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The Manta Sleep Mask & Blackout Stickers set just might be the key to falling asleep faster.
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"I'm sure that manta knew that Jake was trying to get the hooks out," Hall added.
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In response, Leafly's Ashley Manta, a sexuality educator, hypothesized that the problem came from the edibles.
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If you plan to actually use your sex pillow, it's totally worth the cost, Manta says.
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Just over half of small-business owners surveyed by Manta voted for Trump in the election.
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Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort is home to manta rays and three species of sea turtles.
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The Manta Trawls with which scientists skim the oceans for microplastics start at around US$23,220.
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"I immediately went on Twitter to see what the fans loved about Black Manta," he said.
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Understanding how the manta ray is feeding and what it is eating may assist conservation efforts.
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Irina Daniela Manta and Carlos Henrique Farini were married May 20123 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau.
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Irina Daniela Manta and Carlos Henrique Farini were married May 4 at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau.
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The Manta Resort, where the couple was staying, issued a statement on Saturday confirming the death.
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The CEO of Manta Resort, Matthew Saus, did not immediately respond to questions from BuzzFeed News.
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I passed coral reefs and a shipwreck and swam with manta rays and singing humpback whales.
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Trans woman Antony Hegarty was nominated for Best Original Song for "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction.
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In January 2018, the U.S. government listed manta rays as threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act .
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It harbors giant manta rays in addition to corals, jellies, whales, sea turtles, and other animal species.
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When the manta rays saw their reflections, they didn't try to get friendly and socialize with them.
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"We studied the giant manta rays' diet using biochemical tests, such as stable isotope analysis," said Burgess.
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Graphic designer George Manta is a musician, but is also famous in the industry for his illustrations.
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Encounters The 32-year-old actor lands his biggest role yet, playing Black Manta, the underwater supervillain.
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And this month he will star in "Aquaman," opposite Jason Momoa, as the superhero's archnemesis, Black Manta.
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Spanning up to 25 feet from wing to wing, manta rays look like U.F.O.'s from below.
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En la pared detrás de él, colgaron una manta con un estampado de una calavera en llamas.
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The Manta Sleep Mask is not your run-of-the-mill sleep mask that sorta kinda works.
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Much of the damage was in Manabí Province and the city of Manta, not far from Portoviejo.
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Speed swimmers look a bit like manta rays translated into bipedal form: long-torsoed, long-armed, short-legged.
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A diver appears near a cave in Raja Ampat, Indonesia The giant manta ray is a fearsome sight.
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Portoviejo couldn't come back from bee-hind, as Manta FC was eventually triumphant with a 3-2 win.
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A similar app, Flyp, is one of the most popular apps featured on small business community platform Manta.
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Ashley Manta facetiously refers to it as "dropping the H-bomb" — telling new partners that she has herpes.
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Care was also taken not to disturb the orcas, humpback whales and manta rays in the surrounding waters.
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On May 19, a decapitated body was discovered beside another manta alleging to be from a fourth cartel.
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Manta finds that 86 percent plan to vote in the general election, while 123 percent plan to stay home.
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A tower at an airport in the coastal city in Manta also toppled over, according to social media reports.
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Hall said the manta ray stayed still for Wilton, and patiently allowed the diver to remove all the hooks.
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While large manta rays may look intimidating, these animals are harmless to humans and are known for their intelligence.
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According to new research published in the Journal of Ethology, we can now add manta rays to this list.
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The waters off southeast Mozambique are home to whale sharks, manta rays and a bounty of marine mega fauna.
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Watch Out Humans, Manta Rays May Be Self-AwareVery few animals are capable of recognizing themselves in the mirror.
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At the end of the issue, we finally see the face of our narrator – Aquaman's arch-nemesis, Black Manta.
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Near the eastern coast of Tanzania, serious water lovers can visit the Manta Resort's Underwater Room off Pemba Island.
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Out of more than 2,200 small-business owners recently surveyed by Manta, only 36 percent currently use contract workers.
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And finally, dive into a Great Big Story about a marine biologist who's spent her life studying manta rays.
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Tuesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new protections for dolphins, manta rays, and safety standards for lawn mowers.
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Tuesday's edition of the Federal Register contains new fitness guidelines and fewer protections for couguars, sharks and manta rays.
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But a rapid decline in the world's manta populations means that the gills may soon be going off the market.
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In Manta, the airport closed after the control tower collapsed, injuring an air traffic control worker and a security guard.
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Scientists have discovered a site off the Texas coast that they say is the world's first known manta ray nursery.
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The Eloy Alfaro de Manta airport has been closed due to the quake, according to local TV station Noticias 7.
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That motion propels the robot forward, swimming a lot like the manta rays that inspire its shape, the study says.
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The drops in whale shark and manta ray sightings have been put down to climate change and unsustainable fishing methods.
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" Ecological themes moved upfront in "Manta Ray," a ballad that Anohni sang and co-wrote for the documentary "Racing Extinction.
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Great white sharks are also more aggressive than, say, an aquarium favorite like a manta ray or a sea turtle.
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La imagen corporal siempre es un tema complicado, más aún para personas que, como Katrina Manta, han tenido trastornos alimentarios.
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Ramon Solorzano, 46, a car parts merchant in the coastal city of Manta, said he was leaving with his family.
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Inspired by a manta ray, scientists have built a small, squishy robotic fish that can swim and turn by remote control.
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The self-proclaimed "Manta Queen" is a scientist and photographer in Mozambique who has spent 15 years studying these magnificent creatures.
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Her obsession started in high school when she snapped a photo of a manta ray during a dive in Costa Rica.
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The cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales, a tourist destination, saw the most devastation, but damage was widespread throughout the country.
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The cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales, a tourist destination, saw the most devastation but damage was widespread throughout the country.
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It can be found near the aquarium's largest exhibit, the Ocean Voyager, where guests can see whale sharks and manta rays.
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The nearly invisible robotic creature, described in a paper published today in the journal Science Advances, resembles a tiny manta ray.
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Manta ray sightings are down 88% in the last 10 years, and there's been a 79% decrease in whale sharks spotted.
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Gill nets, hanging vertically in the ocean, are indiscriminate, and have caught everything from manta rays to turtles in the past.
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Manta recently surveyed its members about the pending regulations and found that more than half were unaware of the coming changes.
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We did two tours to see manta rays for $150 and whale sharks for around $300, both of which we saw.
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It's pretty straightforward, as Manta vows revenge on Aquaman and Shin gets confirmation that his theories about Atlantis's existence are correct.
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Karina Manta, a finalist in the Modern Love college essay contest, graduated this month from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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Freedivers learn to improve their diving technique while taking identification photos and helping record environmental information essential to manta ray conservation.
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The investigation continues in Tanzania The Manta Resort, where the couple was staying, issued a statement on Saturday confirming the death.
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If they are listed as endangered, the NMFS may also designate a critical habitat for these manta rays, the agency noted.
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Thursday's edition of the Federal Register contains new rules for foreign exchange students, as well as protections for giant manta rays.
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Its main products, which help power mobile and web apps, include container infrastructure platform Triton and cloud-based object storage service Manta.
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In the future, finding more nurseries and protecting more swaths of the ocean could be critical to protecting these manta ray populations.
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Thankfully, a giant manta ray with hooks caught in her eye found one of these buddies out in the deep blue sea.
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Most of the deaths came from three towns in coastal Ecuador: Manta, Portoviejo and Pedernales, according to statistics provided by the office.
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The first time Manta had anal sex, she used a sex pillow to bend forward and take pressure off of her hips.
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New research suggests that manta rays are capable of this unique cognitive feat—a possible sign that these fish are self-aware.
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Manta rays have brains with similar structures and functions found in other vertebrates, including those animals capable of passing the mirror test.
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Giant manta rays, like whale sharks and baleen whales, can strain food particles from the water using a specialized filtering mouth structure.
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The bars are on motors and can move up and down around the sphere, like the curve of a manta ray's fin.
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Today, Infiniti takes its turn with the reveal of the Prototype 10, a four-wheeled rendition of a land-lubbing manta ray.
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It's one of the most popular apps that's been featured on Manta, an online community for small-business owners, according to Oberst.
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When I visited, it was full of white tables covered in pipettes and microscopes that inspect rhino poop and manta ray sperm.
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The camera plunges underwater to reveal an entire fleet of manta ray-like ships, and shark-shaped watercrafts with people on them.
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The giant manta rays can grow to a wingspan of up to 23 feet and live for 40 years, the agency noted.
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The CEO of the Manta Resort confirmed Weber's death in a statement, and said he was free diving alone when he drowned.
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The Li Sheng Ji Fins, Fish Maw and Seafood Shop in Guangzhou also sells manta ray gills on the e-commerce site Taobao.
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After cruising alongside the giant to snap some photos, the manta ray eventually swam off, completely unfazed by the crowd of alien onlookers.
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John Swanciger, CEO of Manta, said he was initially surprised by the percentage of small-business owners who support a minimum wage increase.
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For the majority of small-business owners, this is good news, according to a recently released poll from small-business online resource Manta.
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According to a recent Manta survey, a stunning 60 percent of small-business owners plan to vote in their state primaries and caucuses.
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The Manta is hands-down the most innovative new sex toy for people with penises, especially for boosting masturbation or receiving oral sex.
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From May through October, guests can also freedive with the island's famous 2,000-pound manta rays with wingspans stretching up to 20 feet.
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They drown a painting of sea life at the primary school, adding verisimilitude to the cartoonish renderings of grinning sharks and manta rays.
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Trilobites Scientists are trying to work out why some manta rays have black blotches on their skin, which is uncommon in the oceans.
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Last November, Gregorius Dengekae Krova, 61, a Lamalera fisherman, was arrested by Indonesia's wildlife police after collecting manta fins for a presumed sale.
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At The Manta Resort, off the coast of Pemba near Zanzibar, a butler boats out to meet guests on their private underwater island.
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Spokespersons for the Manta Resort, where Weber was staying, and the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania did not immediately return PEOPLE's requests for comment.
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Spokespersons for the Manta Resort, where Weber was staying, and the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania did not immediately return PEOPLE's request for comment.
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WORLD&aposS FIRST KNOWN MANTA RAY NURSERY DISCOVERED OFF THE TEXAS COAST, SCIENTISTS SAY The exact location of the site is being kept secret.
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With a wingspan of 10 feet, the reef manta ray bore a wide-open mouth that seemed large enough to swallow one of us.
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And tellingly, the white markings on their back did not change, which is what usually happens when a manta ray meets a new individual.
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Another Manta poll, of 21,25 small-business owners nationwide, revealed that 2000 percent of entrepreneurs will be influenced by a candidate's ethics and beliefs.
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"The app ecosystem is an incredible opportunity to level the playing field for small business," said Sara Oberst, vice president of marketing at Manta.
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I met a woman named Ashley Manta, who identifies as a "cannasexual," which is essentially anyone who combines weed and sex thoughtfully and intentionally.
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The video claims it was shot at Manta Point, a tourist spot off the coast of the island of Nusa Penida in Bali, Indonesia.
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"It's more advantageous for penis owners to go with a lower dose, while people with vulvas have a higher threshold for cannabis," Manta explains.
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It's like watching Blue Planet, when a great white is suddenly flanked by two manta-rays, all hovering around the same fetid whale corpse.
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Ms. Manta, 37, is a law professor at Hofstra University, where she is also the founding director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law.
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Conrad Maldives Rangali Island, from $9,999; The Manta Resort, doubles from $1,523 per night with three night minimum; Jules' Undersea Lodge, singles from $675.
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The evening starts with a lavish dinner ($268 per person) prepared by multi-award-winning Chef Enrique Olvera at his restaurant on property, Manta.
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As a result, overfishing has wreaked havoc on not only the world's manta populations but also the $140 million tourism industry that depends on them.
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That same year, manta rays were given enhanced protections under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or Cites.
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Many fisheries target oceanic manta rays for food or traditional medicine products, and other times they are caught by accident in larger-scale fishing operations.
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Aside from Anohni's "Manta Ray," the Oscar-nominated tune from the film Youth, "Simple Song #3", also wasn't invited to be performed on the show.
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File photo - U.S. submarine New Mexico is seen during NATO's Dynamic Manta 2017 anti-submarine warfare exercise, in Catania's harbour, southern Italy March 13, 2017.
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Not just rhinos, but some types of tiger, bear, alligator, sea turtle, water buffalo, scaly anteater, manta ray, musk deer and others are at risk.
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Those giant manta rays have the largest brains of any fish, and their relative brain-to-body size is comparable to that of some mammals.
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As an alternative to layering paint, she began to layer the manta, or cotton, that she now paints on, hanging compositions in airy, overlapping arrangements.
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The young man had worked selling morocho, a homemade sweet corn drink, on the street ever since he hurt his back unloading fish in Manta.
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In Bora Bora to celebrate Mr. Clemons's 40th birthday, the couple swam with sharks and rays, then jumped in with larger, more intimidating Manta rays.
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Taking just a few minutes out of a busy day to stop and think about retirement is the first step, said John Swanciger, Manta CEO.
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Dr. Venables also hopes that by expanding their investigations globally, they may gain a better understanding of how different groups of manta rays are connected.
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Variety reports that Yahha Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta in last year's Aquaman) is currently the front-runner for a "secret role" in the film.
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This French territory, in the heart of the Coral Sea, is home to over 9,300 marine species, including dugongs, manta rays and venomous sea snakes.
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The NMFS will look for evidence that the habitat of these manta rays faces destruction, or if the rays are suffering from disease or predation.
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Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), whom we last saw getting destroyed in battle against Aquaman, is rescued from the middle of the ocean by Dr. Stephen Shin (Randall Park), whom we last saw spouting wild conspiracy theories about the existence of Atlanteans on live TV. When Black Manta comes to again, he's recovering on a bed in an unfamiliar room papered with articles about Aquaman.
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Data from nonpartisan small-business networking platform Manta finds 35 percent of small-business owners are still undecided on who they are voting for in November.
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Another group of Barcelona street traders launched an official fashion label called Top Manta earlier this year, in an attempt to move away from unlicensed selling.
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Soon enough, Arthur and Mera are searching for a mythical trident while being hunted by Orm and the vengeful pirate Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
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"Pillows are meant to cushion your head, and even if you have a memory foam pillow they tend to be squishy," says sex educator Ashley Manta.
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But there are plenty of foes in his way, including Orm, the present King of Atlantis, and Black Manta, an armored mercenary and classic Aquaman foe.
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The record follows a recent Oscars nomination for "Manta Ray," a song she wrote in collaboration with composer J. Ralph for the environmentalist documentary Racing Extinction.
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Animals&apos amazing abilities have inspired designs for robots that swim like manta rays , hover like jellyfish , jump like bush babies and even jog like humans .
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Devil rays, which resemble their bigger cousins, manta rays, are targeted for their gill plates, which are sold in China for use in a health tonic.
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Last year, ANOHNI received an Oscar nomination in the category of best original song for "Manta Ray," composed with J Ralph for the documentary Racing Extinction.
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The news outlet notes that Manta, 22019, and Johnson, 24, skated to the pop song "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)," and finished in 7th place.
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" Manta expressed optimism in an Instagram post in October that ice dancing was "making space for new approaches, new forms of art, new types of people.
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The credits scene ends with that agreement, possibly hinting that Manta will be the villain of an upcoming Aquaman sequel, if a sequel comes to pass.
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Off the side of the Esperanza, the manta trawl lazily gobbles up water samples from the ocean's surface that are filtered through its long mesh tail.
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Co-led by Khosla Ventures and Hoxton Ventures, the round also included participation from DN Capital, Capnamic Ventures and Manta Ray, all previous backers of Nomagic.
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The Manta Sleep Mask is designed to contour to your eyes so you won't see even the slightest peep of light, resulting in a more restful slumber.
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"Compatriots: Unity, strength and prayer," Glas told a throng of residents gathered in the streets of Manta as he instructed them on how to look for survivors.
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Related: Five families massacred in two weeks as Mexico's murder rate surges The Northeastern cartel claimed responsibility for the massacre in a manta signed by Z-40.
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About half the people I spoke to were in favor of cannabis as an aphrodisiac, among them "The Cannasexual," Ashley Manta, a sex educator and cannabis writer.
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Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) starts out strong but feels increasingly superfluous as the film goes on, and probably would've been better saved for a sequel.
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Asked to choose among Republican candidates, 228 percent of respondents opted for Trump, while 235 percent cited Cruz and 225 percent named Rubio in the Manta poll.
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It's mind-blowing what you can see just by putting your face in the Red Sea — you get to swim alongside dolphins, whale sharks, and manta rays.
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Field Notes Justin and Crystal Reynolds shared their first dance as husband and wife almost three years ago surrounded by friends, family, manta rays and whale sharks.
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Ms. Manta, 37, is a lawyer and a law professor at Hofstra University, where she is also the founding director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law.
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To that point, 653 percent of entrepreneurs don't currently have a retirement savings plan, according to a new survey by Manta, an online community for small businesses.
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The couple had traveled from Louisiana and on Thursday were staying at the luxury Manta Resort, which is famous for its floating accommodations that include underwater rooms.
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Tucked away in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the world&aposs first known nursery for baby manta rays has been discovered amid the shallow reefs.
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The March manta named, in badly ungrammatical Spanish, the young nephew Kiko as the "lider maximo," who has made it clear he's ready to murder for his demands.
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In all, China has loaned Ecuador some $20113 billion, plus another $7 billion in financing for the development of an oil refinery in Ecuador's port city of Manta.
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The funding was led by Naspers, which was also an investor in the company's $20093 million round in 2017, with participation also from Runa Capital and Manta Ray.
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Before the corridor's completion, I decided to take a road trip along the route, starting in Manta and ending in Manaus, with the intention of completing a book.
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Because giant manta rays are a protected species, the researchers weren't able to snatch a specimen and peer into its stomach—a procedure that's potentially distressing and lethal.
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It's home to 75 percent of the world's coral species, 1,765 types of fish, and provides sanctuary to beloved species like whale sharks, manta rays, and sea turtles.
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According to an exclusive nationwide poll with Manta, a social network for small businesses, Trump won the first debate in the eyes of small businesses on Main Street.
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The top concerns for small-business owners are the economy (49 percent), taxes (18 percent), health care (10 percent) and immigration (8 percent), according to the Manta poll.
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The archipelago, located in the Sulawesi Sea, is known as one of the world's best diving spots, offering crystal-clear waters, manta rays, sea turtles and whale sharks.
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According to Ashley Manta, sex educator and founder of 420-friendly sex-positive lifestyle brand CannaSexual, cannabis can help you ground and feel more present with a partner.
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We gazed down — at least 25 manta rays circled underwater, their huge mouths open, their white eyes alert and moving side to side as they hoovered up plankton.
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In Indonesia's Raja Ampat islands, for example, 40 percent of the reef manta population was melanistic, but in others, it was hard to find even two melanistic mantas.
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One potential explanation for why some manta populations may have more melanism than others, they say, is that the trait may spread at random when different groups meet.
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Matthew Saus, CEO of the Manta Resort, previously confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement that a male guest had drowned while free diving alone outside the underwater room.
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Now they have $5 million in seed funding led by Lerer Hippeau, and joined by Manta Ray Ventures, Oliver Samwer's Global Founders Capital, Fabrice Grinda and Jose Marin.
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Arthur Curry; the introduction of Black Manta, the energy beam-wielding villain; and the impending war that the whole world, surface dwellers and underwater denizens alike, hinges on.
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A slick computer rendering of a sci-fi-looking building in the desert—roughly the shape of a manta ray—blue lights arrayed in a half-moon around it.
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You can see it first hand in a video shot by diver Rich Horner, who swam off Manta Point in Nusa Penida, Indonesia on Saturday, surrounded by plastic trash.
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Teeming with coral species, fish found nowhere else on Earth, sharks and manta rays, it's the most biodiverse reef on the planet and a remarkable success story for conservation.
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Researchers Csilla Ari and Dominic D'Agostino from the University of South Florida in Tampa observed two captive giant manta rays in a tank, both with and without mirrors inside.
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There was a manta ray version, and [animator] Ruben Aquino, who actually ended up doing the final design and the final animation of Ursula, did some early ones too.
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Opinion Washington — IN March, two marine biologists published a study of giant manta rays responding to their reflections in a large mirror installed in their aquarium in the Bahamas.
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Of the hundreds of species of cartilaginous fish in the ocean, only two — the two known species of manta rays — exhibit this trait, and then only in some populations.
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Advocates say the manta campaign has one other advantage over previous efforts to stem the trade in endangered species: Ray gills have never been officially recognized as traditional Chinese medicine.
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"We are conditioned from an early age to experience pleasure quickly and silently, due to most of us growing up in households where masturbation required stealth and speed," Manta says.
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Glas said there were deaths in the cities of Manta, Portoviejo and Guayaquil — all several hundred kilometers (miles) from the center of the quake, which struck shortly after nightfall Saturday.
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"That's a thing you'd get in big trouble for in real life, but could be super hot to describe in detail from the privacy of your own home," Manta says.
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And recently, it was discovered that manta rays, which are a type of fish, are capable of passing the mirror test, which is considered an important measure of self-awareness.
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Scuba diving and snorkeling is available for getting views under the sea, with eight protected marine parks in the Atlantic Ocean home to seahorses, whale sharks, manta rays and dolphins.
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Incredibly, the manta rays also blew bubbles in front of the mirror, which is an unusual behavior for these creatures (perhaps it's the elasmobranch equivalent of sticking one's tongue out).
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Whatever strain you decide on, and for whatever reason, Manta says a major key to making cannabis and sex work for you and your partner(s) is a little introspection.
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"If you want the 'fuck your brains out'-kind of stuff, I would look at [strains] that are high in pinene and limonene, which are two different terpenes," Manta says.
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That's what happened to players of Liga de Portoviejo and Manta FC of Ecuador's second division on Saturday, when bees descended 24 minutes into the game at Reales Tamarindos Stadium.
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"There are issues squeezing small business owners from every side — the economy, taxes and health care," John Swanciger, CEO of Manta, a social network for small business owners, told CNBC.
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Related: Post-Apocalyptic Angels Comes to Life with 3D Projections Surreal Photos of a Rainforest Filled with Gas Stations Utopian Architect Plans a Floating City Shaped Liked a Manta Ray
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Mr. Harris, a former Army medic, gazed through a diving mask at a manta ray the size of a hang glider doing slow somersaults above shifting schools of silver fish.
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Every frame has some scrap of plastic, dotted with some brief sightings of the reef fish, jellyfish, and a lone manta ray who have to live in a plastic mess.
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"Everything can be rebuilt, but what can't be rebuilt are human lives, and that's the most painful," he said in a telephone call to state TV before departing Rome for Manta.
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The March manta threatening to kill random civilians unless extradition proceedings against the Treviño brothers were stopped summed up the way the kingpin strategy has failed the people of Ciudad Victoria.
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Fundación Esperanza Canina, an organization in Manta that cares for stray animals, said on Facebook that its shelter had been destroyed and that several dogs had been crushed by the debris.
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Foolishly, I thought my swim with manta rays in Antigua would be different, since our group was told that they were out in the ocean and not in an enclosed pool.
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Speaking of inclusivity, it's worth mentioning that being white didn't protect transgender musician Ahnoni from not being invited to perform despite being nominated for best song ("Manta Ray," from Racing Extinction ).
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The firm's latest expedition takes citizen scientists to Peru on a weeklong journey to photograph, measure and collect genetic samples of giant manta rays with the goal to help halt overfishing.
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Earlier this year, "Manta Ray," her contribution to the soundtrack of "Racing Extinction," a film about man's role in the disappearance of species, received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song.
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Marine scientist Joshua Stewart, was working to connect the dots between manta ray populations that live near each other at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
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Image: Elias Levy/FlickrTo learn more about the giant manta ray's diet, Burgess' team traveled to Isla de la Plata off the coast of Ecuador, a known aggregation area for the rays.
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The British singer and composer, formerly known as Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons, was nominated for best song for "Manta Ray," composed with J Ralph for the documentary Racing Extinction.
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The company's SDK will launch in a few months, and Forge is in the process of staffing up, thanks to a $1 million seed investment from Manta Ray Ventures and Upfront Ventures.
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Just over the course of (re)binge-watching a few episodes for this story, I saw lizards, fruit bats, peregrine falcons, humpback whales, black reef tip sharks, manta rays, and African elephants.
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Anohni, the first-ever transgender singer nominated for Best Original Song Oscar for her performance of "Manta Ray" in the documentary Racing Extinction, is, like many others, not attending Sunday's Academy Awards.
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As you descend into the depths of the ocean, you'll encounter a variety of marine life — from colorful tropical fish to groups of manta rays — culminating with with a very perturbed shark.
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Also nominated are David Lang for "Simple Song #3" from Youth and J. Ralph and Antony Hegarty (of the band Antony and the Johnsons) for their song "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction.
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The American couple who joined us were avid snorkelers, and they pointed out manta and eagle rays, small sharks and different kinds of colorful fish as well as spectacular underwater volcanic rocks.
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The team also collected, and counted, more than 43,000 plastic fragments using a "manta trawl" net -- a fine-meshed oceanographic instrument designed to skim the surface of the water to collect samples.
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Other investors included the venture arm of Tyson Foods , the CEO of one of the largest producers of meat alternatives, Monde Nissin, UK-based Manta Ray Ventures and China's Bits x Bites.
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Then there are the plastic sacks stuffed with manta ray gill plates: feathery filaments of cartilage that the rays — majestic cousins of the shark — use to filter plankton from seawater as they swim.
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"I've read many pharmacopoeia, and none of them record the medical function of manta ray gills," said Li Junde, a traditional medicine researcher at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing.
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Marine biologist Joshua Stewart was scuba diving in the Gulf of Mexico when he spotted a baby manta ray—an unexpected find, given that juveniles are extremely rare and seldom observed by humans.
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"Baby mantas are virtually absent from nearly all manta populations around the world, so even less is known about the juvenile life stage," explained the University of California San Diego, in its statement.
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Vaquitas are killed in gillnets, a widespread type of non-selective gear that has depleted several species of importance to the local economy, such as totoaba, sharks, manta rays, corvinas and other fish.
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As the episode opens, Danny (Marvel Cinematic Universe featured player Anthony Mackie) and his girlfriend Theo (Nicole Beharie) are sharing an apartment with Danny's buddy Karl (Aquaman's Black Manta, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II).
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Image: Amanda MarshallNew research shows that giant manta rays, known only to consume plankton near the ocean surface, are far more predatory than we thought, swimming to extreme depths to catch their prey.
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Win: "Til It Happens to You" Place: "Earned It" Show: "Manta Ray" Should win: "Earned It," by The Weeknd, is a sexy, soulful tune — with the added bonus of being a radio hit.
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"We have determined that the giant manta ray is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout a significant portion of its range," the agency writes in the Federal Register.
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We have yet to verify whether this video was, indeed, taken in Bali, but the latitude and longitude Horner gave on Facebook (Latitude: -8.7934, Longitude: 115.527) correspond to Manta Point in Nusa Penida.
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Finally, in the film's third act, Mera and Aquaman, while traveling to find the magic trident, catch up with Manta in Sicily, defeat him, break his helmet, and throw him into the ocean.
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When she opened up an unpainted, waterlogged manta, she found the earthy residue had expressed itself in a series of delicate Rorschach-like forms that resembled X-rays of plants or exotic insects.
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In Wallace's time, naturalists called manta rays "devil fish," but I'm sure that had they actually swam with them, and seen how beautifully they moved, they would have chosen a more befitting name.
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Make sure that won't ever happen by picking up a Manta Sleep Mask (now on sale for over 20% off), which was specifically designed to block out light so you can sleep anywhere.
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Indeed, $1 million of the Pepper's $5.6 million in seed funding is money that Forge had raised from Upfront and Manta Ray, both of which have more recently plugged more money into Pepper.
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"We have determined that the giant manta ray is likely to become an endangered species within the foreseeable future throughout a significant portion of its range," the agency wrote in the Federal Register.
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An official from the hospital where Velazquez was being treated in Manta, Ecuador, told CNN that the man had no injuries caused by the earthquake and had fallen ill from a previous medical condition.
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After analyzing other divers' juvenile sightings, he and his colleagues determined a specific section of the Gulf to be a nursery for oceanic manta rays, according to their study published recently in Marine Biology.
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Amber Heard is Mera, his love interest; Patrick Wilson plays Orm, his half-brother and a bad guy; Yahya Abdul-Mateen II plays Black Manta, another bad guy; and Nicole Kidman plays Aquaman's mother.
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Fraser used the underwater performance skills she learned as a mermaid to create eco-activist videos such as "Manta's Last Dance," which ultimately helped put manta rays onto an endangered species list in 2014.
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His first blueprint, presented at the TED x talk in 2012, owed more to science fiction than to reality: a chain of manta-ray-shaped stations that would passively funnel trash into their bellies.
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TL;DR: Grab a room-darkening Manta Sleep Mask on sale for more than 20% off, dropping the price to just $29.99 — a small price to pay for the best sleep of your life.
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One of nature's most efficient and graceful swimmers, manta rays have long fascinated scientists with a unique propulsion method to cruise through even turbulent seas, flapping their pectoral fins effortlessly to drive water backwards.
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On Thursday, Steven Weber proposed to girlfriend Kenesha Antoine by swimming outside one of the windows of the underwater room they were staying at during their stay at the Manta Resort, according to CNN.
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Mr. Ralph, a specialist in documentary scores, has been nominated twice for best original song ("Manta Ray" from "Racing Extinction," and "Before My Time" from "Chasing Ice," performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell).
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Marine biologists have struggled to determine the diet of the majestic giant manta ray, an elusive creature that can grow up to 13 feet (7 meters) across and weigh up to 3,000 pounds (1,350 kg).
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Fraser works mainly in what she describes as "eco-art activism," appearing in videos around the world, swimming tail-clad at times with real fish ranging from tiger sharks to humpback whales to manta rays.
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Guests at Soneva Fushi have the opportunity to experience everything the Maldives has to offer, from snorkeling with manta rays, to sunset dolphin cruises, to stargazing using the resort's own state-of-the-art telescope.
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Mr. Branson, who owns and lives on Necker Island in the Caribbean, said he was astonished by the animal life during his visit to the Saudi islands, including manta rays and sea turtles laying eggs.
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But in a study published Tuesday in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, researchers confirmed that some manta ray populations have more melanistic individuals than others, and at least one possible explanation was definitively eliminated.
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Rejecting the austere angles and straight lines favored by many German designers, Mr. Colani preferred curves and bulges, which were often unapologetically erotic, or which referenced creatures like sharks, manta rays and birds of prey.
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"Nowhere else in the world has a manta ray nursery area been recognized — which heightens the importance of the sanctuary for these pelagic species," said George P. Schmahl, superintendent of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary.
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In their latest survey of small-business owners, Manta, a social network for entrepreneurs, found they were almost evenly split on the issue, with 51 percent favoring raising the minimum wage and 49 percent against it.
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Chef Enrique Olvera—the culinary mind behind New York City's popular Cosme restaurant—shares his exotic take on the classic from his upscale seaside eatery, Manta, located inside the celebrity favorite Cape Hotel in Los Cabos.
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By February, when blizzards coat the oily streets, the world outside will resemble the bar's Black Manta, a rye drink with black sesame and on-trend charcoal, made unsettlingly frothy with the aid of egg whites.
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The Conrad Maldives also housed a third-party dive center called Ocean Dive, with several daily snorkeling and diving tours to see manta rays and whale sharks, as well as fishing tours to catch big game.
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Peek raised $10 million two years ago, and this new round is led by Cathay Innovation with participation from existing backers that include ex-Yelp COO Geoff Donaker, Kayak founder Paul English, I2BF and Manta Ray.
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Discoveries made there include a surprising link between fish and seabirds: a study found that nesting birds' droppings carried onto the reef by the rain stimulated plankton growth that attracted manta rays and other plankton feeders.
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Of course, I got the dragon bit totally wrong and we'd soon learn that the other wildlife we'd encounter — the orangutans, the scops owls, the unjustly athletic gibbons and hypnotizing manta rays — was infinitely more interesting.
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Ricardo Zambrano, a university lecturer from the city Manta where the relief effort is centered, said the main problem is that there is little the volunteers can usefully do once they get to the affected areas.
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The reefs offer protection from several large shark species found in the area, which the young manta rays would not have if they were simply to sun themselves in the open surface waters above their feeding grounds.
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None.) Orm isn't the only foe Arthur has to contend with; there's also Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a pirate in league with Orm who wants revenge for his father's death during a raid thwarted by Aquaman.
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"The previous knowledge of giant manta ray diet was based on observations of feeding activity on surface water zooplankton at well-known aggregation sites," noted Queensland University biologist and study co-author Katherine Burgess in a statement.
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And Conrad Maldives, which opened the first underwater residence in November, has an underwater restaurant with glass walls where you can see all sorts of sea creatures, even sharks and manta rays, while you have a cocktail.
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A poll earlier this year by Manta, an online directory for small businesses, of 2,527 owners of small companies who were planning to vote in the primaries, found that 60% favoured Mr Trump as the Republican candidate.
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"A lot of salaried employees aren't going to want to track their hours, even if it's to their benefit," said John Swanciger, chief executive of Manta, an online community of more than three million small-business owners.
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Get the Manta Sleep Mask & Blackout Stickers for $29.99 See Details If special sleep masks and sound machines still don't cut it, maybe it's high time that you practice mindfulness meditation to help facilitate a more relaxing snooze.
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A. A towed hydrophone, an underwater listening device that looks a bit like a manta ray, was lowered by a cable to listen for pulses from the data recorder, which has a range of a couple of miles.
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Along with "Earned It," the 2016 Best Original Song nominations include: "Til it Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground; "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction; "Simple Song No. 3" from Youth, and "Writing's on the Wall" from Spectre.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Researchers in Singapore have built an underwater robot that looks and swims like a manta ray, using only single motors and flexible fins to propel it through water in a manner uncannily like its biological cousin.
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But there is still a lot of work to be done on understanding the fluid flow around bio-robotic fins and the interaction between fluid and structure in flexible fins such as Chew's manta ray robot, he said.
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Mr. Li, who is also a member of China's Endangered Species Scientific Commission, said some villagers in the southern province of Guangdong used manta gills in tonics, although the practice was rare and was not backed by empirical data.
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BLUE WHALE FOUND ON CALIFORNIA COAST DIED FROM SHIP STRIKE, SCIENTISTS SAY Sites where the large plankton-eating manta rays congregate are typically far from coastal areas, making it hard for scientists to study the animals in the wild.
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The song was up against The Weeknd's "Earned It" from Fifty Shades of Grey, "Manta Ray" from Racing Extinction, "Simple Song #3" from Youth and Lady Gaga and Diane Warren's "Til It Happens to You" from The Hunting Ground.
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In the 20053s he began working with circular and elliptical canvases and, at the same time, produced flowing shapes in metal or laminated fiberglass, like "Andromeda" (22005), whose undulant, billowing planes suggested the fluid movement of a manta ray.
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Runner-up photos in the conservation category offered other perspectives from the front lines of the plastics crisis: an anglerfish struggling against a dense plastic net, and a reef manta ray attempting to filter feed on plastic particles (below).
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Enter Pepper, an LA-based company that has sealed up $5.6 million in seed funding from Upfront Ventures, Lerer Hippeau and Manta Ray Ventures to help direct-to-consumer startups, along with other digitally native businesses, do just that.
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Small-group, hourlong excursions from Hawaii Island and Ocean Tours ($99) take guests just offshore to watch manta rays — gentle giants whose wingspans can exceed 10-feet — eat zooplankton in an elegant ballet of barrel rolls and back flips.
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All the gills come from Indonesia, despite the ban there, said the shop owner, who would give only his last name, Li. "In China, manta ray is not listed as the first, second or third level of endangered species," he said.
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It's completely normal to get tongue-tied during phone sex, and you don't have to face-palm yourself if you feel this way, says Ashley Manta, a former phone sex operator and author of A Feminist's Guide To Phone Sex.
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The oceanic manta ray nursery is located at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, and is the first of its kind to be described in a scientific study, according to a statement released by the University of California San Diego.
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We also see a long chase scene, get a look at the colorful city of Atlantis, meet Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), and what appears to be a giant underwater war featuring monstrous sea creatures and insanely large crabs.
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Gabriela Rocío Mero, 36, a teacher from this town, had gone with her daughter, 8, and her niece, 9, on Saturday evening to buy school supplies in the port town of Manta when a building collapsed and killed all three.
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But Dr. Paig-Tran and her colleagues' latest research, published Wednesday in Science Advances, shows that the manta ray is using a previously unknown method of filtration that causes particles to glide over its straining system, rather than go through it.
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To study the manta-ray enigma, the researchers looked at the frequency of melanism in thousands of photos uploaded by divers, dive operators and underwater photographers between 2003 and 2018 in different locations in and around the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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In the library at Mar-a-Lago he walked from a painting of Mr. Trump in tennis whites to a 1750 oil painting of Benedetto Saluzzo Della Manta, who he claimed came from the same region as a distant ancestor.
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"I'm not sure how it works, but if you're sick, eat some in a soup and you'll immediately feel better," said Ji Songcheng, 25, whose large shop was jammed recently with bags of black and beige manta gills priced around $75 a pound.
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Conservationists say the Chinese trade in manta ray gills has soared over the past decade, fueled not by a renaissance of tradition but by an unscrupulous network of traffickers looking for ever new ways to profit from the Chinese appetite for wildlife.
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The world's manta populations have dwindled as their gills have piled up in this balmy southern city, home to 99 percent of the trade, according to WildAid, a conservation group based in San Francisco that rolled out the current campaign in 2014.
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After going with Nemo on a class trip to see manta rays migrate back home, she starts getting flashbacks from her own past and she realizes that somewhere in the great big ocean, she has a family – and she wants to find them.
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"I think it's apparent when eco-socio awareness runs deep, and Meghan is a shining example of that," says Prijic Smith, who says sales have been steadily growing since Friday and so far over $300 have been raised for the Manta Trust.
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As a part of Georgia Aquarium's "Journey with Gentle Giants" experience, kids enrolled in the outpatient program at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta can sign up for a dive with aquarium's Manta rays, sea turtles and sawfish, along with thousands of other animals.
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Walking away from the trailer, you'd think the movie was about a trio of mystical women from the Capital in The Hunger Games, a trio of kids with a better understanding of physics than you'll ever have, and a flying space manta ray.
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The study, led by Charles Anderson of the Manta Marine organization in the Maldives, estimated that dolphin numbers had likely dropped to only 13 percent of their levels before 1980, when large-scale fishing efforts for tuna in the Indian Ocean began.
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We've also come across mating leatherback turtles (awesome, but not so sexy), orcas and manta rays in the Galápagos Islands, a huge tiger shark in Moorea and fields of tiny eels peeking out of their holes on the sandy seafloor in Palau.
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Using the catalogue with 25 years of diving pictures, Stewart and staff were able to analyze the spot patterns on the bellies of countless rays to identify individuals and calculated that 95 percent of the manta rays that visit the sanctuary were actually young.
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CNN followed the Briton to Sumba, Indonesia where he was engaged in a manta ray tagging study, and on to the Great Barrier Reef, where an ambitious citizen-led initiative could open up new perspectives on one of nature's grandest -- and most threatened -- treasures.
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Una foto pasó rápidamente de un teléfono a otro: mostraba a Cody Langford —uno de los niños sobrevivientes, de 8 años— acostado en una cama de hospital con la cabeza envuelta en vendas con uno de sus hombros asomado por debajo de una manta blanca.
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Read more: Food will be scarce, expensive and less nutritious, climate report says Along with research assistant Shane Antonition, who is with the Bermuda Aquarium Museum and Zoo, Ojeda spends hours picking through the sargassum and what was collected in the manta trawl net.
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In some areas of Indonesia, the number of caught mantas declined by as much as 94 percent in about a decade, prompting the government to begin arresting fishermen in 2014 and to prohibit all manta fishing in the country's 2.3-million-square-mile exclusive economic zone.
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It was one on a long list of errands she needed to finish before she headed to the 183 Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles, where she'd been nominated for best original song: "Manta Ray," a collaboration with composer J. Ralph from the eco-minded documentary Racing Extinction.
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He explained his frustration to her the next morning, on a Sunday, two days before he was to return to New York, and followed his one-on-one request with yet another dinner invite, this one to Manta Ray, a restaurant on the beach in Tel Aviv.
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The earlier winning design by the late Zaha Hadid — which resembled something between an enormous, sleek bicycle helmet and a manta ray — was the object of criticism by dozens of Japanese architects, including Pritzker Prize-winner Fumihiko Maki and the prominent Japanese postmodernist architect Arata Isozaki.
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The warm waters of the Dahlak Archipelago — a scattering of more than 212 islands, only four of them inhabited, lying just north of Massawa — abound with jellyfish, barracuda, manta rays, parrotfish, red snappers, coral fish, puffer fish, clown fish and more than 220 types of corals.
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Visiting the Indonesian coast can bring on a kind of whiplash: One moment you're dazzled by opulent biodiversity — monkeys and bats flying through the air, manta rays swooping through the crystalline water — the next you're in an environmental hellscape of acrid smoke and burnt tree stumps.
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It can take a few minutes to get used to the wavy hair and distorted speech (because they're speaking underwater, see?), but once you do, you'll enjoy the sight of royalty riding sharks and manta rays, and you'll get to visit kingdoms where fish people and crab people rule.
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" Bridge of SpiesCarolThe Hateful EightSicarioStar Wars: The Force Awakens Embrace of the SerpentMustangSon of SaulTheebA War "Earned It," Fifty Shades of Grey"Manta Ray," Racing Extinction"Simple Song #3," Youth"Til It Happens to You," The Hunting Ground"Writing's on the Wall," Spectre Kurt Russell in "The Hateful Eight.
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A survey published by Manta last month shows that 87 percent of small-business owners don't feel that they're at risk of a cybersecurity attack, and 1 in 3 small businesses don't have the tools in place — firewalls, antivirus software, spam filters or data-encryption tools — to protect themselves.
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Graduates can dive into Dhonakulhi Island's reef channel, home to exotic sea life, and 48 nearby dive sites including one known as the Aquarium, where they can spot moray eels, lion fish and seasonal manta rays, and Mathi Faru, known for its octopus, sting ray and leaf fish species.
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And there are other amazing underwater attractions around the world, from the Niyama Private Islands in the Maldives, where guests can enjoy a cocktail nearly 20 feet under the Indian Ocean to Manta Resort's Underwater Room off Pemba Island on the coast of Tanzania for $1,500 per night.
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Perhaps best known for the indie rock group Antony and the Johnsons, Hegarty has been recording as a solo artist for years – she's got one of the better covers of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide," BTW – and was nominated for Best Original Song for "Manta Ray," recorded for the documentary Racing Extinction.
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The artist, who has also gone by the name Antony Hegarty, penned an open letter in Pitchfork Thursday, in which she expressed her disappointment in the Academy after it was announced that two Oscar-nominated songs, including Anohni's "Manta Ray", were not invited to be performed due to time constraints.
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The teacher-turned-fascist from The 100 (Michael Beach) is the embittered father of B-plot villain Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), a capable underwater pirate whose vendetta against Aquaman leads to a ludicrously expensive-looking yet admittedly impressive extended chase-and-fight scene in an Italian seaside town.
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Recent data from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) found political uncertainty at an all-time high for the month of August, while separate data from small-business networking platform Manta found more than one-third of small-business owners say they're still undecided about who to vote for in November.
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"I am not an expert on insurance and have a hard time trying to figure out the best plans and options are for myself, let alone a plan for less than 10 employees," says Greg Corey, owner of Porchlight, a small creative design agency in Atlanta, also in a blog post for Manta.
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"As a small business that employs about 20 people, the company and our employees are paying twice what they paid for health insurance just two years ago, and are getting less for it," says Brad Chandler, CEO of Virginia-based home buying company Express Homebuyers, in a blog post Manta wrote about their poll results.
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After bringing a whole to meaning to the reality TV manta "I'm not here to make friends," Caridi was kicked off The Bachelor this week during a two-on-one date in which, after confessing her unrequited love for him, Higgins accidentally fooled viewers – and her – by bringing along an all-important rose to the breakup.
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Every episode brings some new visual wonder, like a giant manta-ray-esque creature ridden by a desert-dwelling tribe of Gelflings, a swarm of giant arachnids that assemble themselves into a mouth to speak to the Skeksis, or the carriages the Skeksis ride around Thra, which are controlled by giant pill bugs rolled into wheels.
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That latter point is the same reason singer ANOHNI — only the second transgender Oscar nominee in the history of the awards — decided to not attend after the show cut the performances of both her song "Manta Ray" as well as composer David Lang's "Simple Song #3" (meanwhile, Dave Grohl will be performing… just because.) "The Oscars aren't mandatory," they were saying.
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