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On this Thursday edition of Crossing The Streams on The Brett Winterble Show we're joined by Good Morning BT's Beth Troutman!

Frank Marshall's The Little Mermaid is sincere, reverent, safe. What it isn't, and what the original continues to be, is a joyous blast.

Twizzlers and ice cream are two road snack favorites during the duo's 12,000 mile trip to Alaska.

>> reporter: the maldives is an island nation. over a thousand fish species in habit this patch of the indian ocean occasionally in significant numbers. >> here in the maldives we have the largest number of races recorded in the world. they have 5,100 individuals in the database. >> reporter: beth leads a team of researchers at the conservation charity. six days a week for over half a year, this group heads out to a unesco protected bay in hopes of finding mantas to study. surprisingly this weather is the weather they want. >> the rainy season, you get plankton trapped in the closed end of the...

Mantas. i definitely believe that they all have different personalities. this is something that hopefully peop people will look into in the future. >> reporter: for now beth's team collects data on their population size, behavioral habits and reproduction. >> manta rays have been studied just over a decade. in scientific terms it's not that long. there are still so many questions we don't know the answers to. and you can't persuade people to protect something that they don't know that much about. >> reporter: so far, the team's work has helped lead to legal habitat protection for mantas and th...