The Devil Rays of Murcielago (VIDEO)

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Marine ecologist Emmett Duffy of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center co-leads a team of biologists on a scouting trip in Murcielago, Costa Rica, where they catch sight of a group of courting devil rays. Emmett Duffy directs the Marine Global Earth Observatories (MarineGEO), a global network dedicated to tracking biodiversity in coastal ecosystems around the world.

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