I didn’t even know what I was looking at when I watched this clip that had been retweeted into my timeline by a sharktivist I follow. And then my perpetual light in the darkness Julianne Escobedo Shepherd helped me once again:
Except, given their colors and shapes, I believe these are skates?
The diving company that posted this video, as you can see in their caption of it, “had never seen this before being captured on cam by @alejandro_lugon.” Well, that makes two of us! And they do it missionary! Well, that makes three of us (at least!).
Another thing some people (and rays) are doing is having sex with manta rays, per the first hit when I Googled “manta ray sex,” back when I thought these were manta rays:
I feel like I learned a lot today.