Sting Rays

DID YOU KNOW THAT .....

• A sting ray looks like a pancake and has a long tail with a stinger.
  
• The ray uses his stinging tail for protection.
  

• A sting ray's tail has spines that are connected to a poison sac that he uses for stinging. His sting can be very painful.
  
• When he takes time out to eat or rest, he sits quietly on the sea floor and is very hard to see.
  
• A ray has special openings by his eyes called spiracle that swish water into his gills so that he can lie on the muddy seabed floor without suffocating.