Tag: cownose stingray

  • Cownose rays

    Cownose rays

    by M. Kathy Raines             “Shuffle your feet!” This is tried-and-true advice for those splashing in the surf. But if you forget—if you feel the searing pain of a stingray’s barb—the culprit was likely an Atlantic or a Southern, not a cownose ray (Rhinoptera bonasus).             Southern and Atlantic rays bury themselves in sand, and,…