{"id":824366,"date":"2026-08-24T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824366\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T16:06:10","slug":"oceanic-manta-ray-spotted-off-long-island-coast-in-rare-new-york-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824366\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceanic manta ray spotted off Long Island coast in rare New York sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sure was\u00a0hungray.<\/p>\n<p>A majestic manta ray was spotted feeding in a rare sighting just off\u00a0the coast of\u00a0Long Island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1326553039676985\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Video<\/a>\u00a0shared by the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation captured the rare sight of a massive manta ray gracefully navigating the waters\u00a0of the\u00a0Jones Beach State Park.<\/p>\n<p>Although manta rays inhabit tropical, subtropical\u00a0and\u00a0temperate regions, the DEC says they occasionally swim in New York waters during the warmer months.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the post, the DEC says Manta rays are filter feeders known for consuming large quantities of zooplankton closer to shore,\u00a0but\u00a0can also venture out to deeper water to forage for medium-sized fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The magnificent sea creature can live up to 40 years and grow to more than 4,000 pounds, the department said, without\u00a0saying\u00a0how big the one in the video was.<\/p>\n<p>The DEC did not provide specific details about when the manta ray was spotted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It sure was\u00a0hungray. A majestic manta ray was spotted feeding in a rare sighting just off\u00a0the coast of\u00a0Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1147,318765,5871,79,194,201],"class_list":["post-824366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-jones-beach-state-park","tag-metro","tag-science","tag-us-news","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}