The first night out on the 18-passenger Kontiki Wayra was going to be rough. Ocean currents and trade winds off Manta, Ecuador, aren't gentle on small boats. When our naturalist/guide and ...

The coast of Ecuador is said to hold the largest population of manta rays in the world, according to a study led by researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) in collaboration with The Manta Trust ...

MANTA, Ecuador - By dawn the extent of the damage to the city of Manta became dramatically clearer in the aftermath of a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck late Saturday off the coast of ...

PEDERNALES, Ecuador --The strongest earthquake to hit Ecuador in decades flattened buildings and buckled highways along its Pacific coast, sending the Andean nation into a state of emergency.