Getting stung by a stingray often ends your beach day. Here are several tips that will help you avoid getting stung and feeling the shooting pain of a ray's barb as it slashes your foot.

Most call them "sting rays," and they do have a sharp, pointed stinger at the base of their long, skinny tails that is to be avoided. Bat rays are most often caught by accident, by those fishing ...

You’ve stepped on a stingray. Stingrays tend to congregate ... Department’s Marine Species Portal. You’ll also see bat rays, which are “more airplane-ish” with a maximum wingspan of ...

rather than the bat rays or diamond stingrays that also live in the area. Stingray barbs are a kind of dermal denticle—like a tooth—on a tail that can be whipped around. In a strike ...

It’s something you don't see every day: a California bat ray in Oakland’s Lake Merritt. Biologists say the ray could have swam to brackish Lake Merritt simply out of curiosity, possibly ...

A large bat ray at a reef at Catalina Island in California. What should I do if I’m stung by a stingray? “If you’re stung at the beach, your best method is to see a lifeguard,” Barilotti said.