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Late in the evening, a government-owned catamaran departs from Galveston, Texas nearly every week of the summer. It travels through the night, a hundred miles down the Gulf of Mexico, to reach a series of reefs that rise up from the seafloor. The boat parks beside the coral for several days, abutting the edge of the continental shelf. There, biologists can plumb the water's depths to survey its creatures. The reefs harbors scores of young giant manta rays-the first nursery habitat proposed in the world, according to new research. [Source: Popular Science]
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