What do stingrays eat?

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Stingrays employ a wide range of feeding strategies. Some have specialized jaws that allow them to crush hard mollusk shells, whereas others use external mouth structures called cephalic lobes to guide plankton into their oral cavity. Benthic stingrays (those that reside on the sea flooor) are ambush hunters. read more

Stingrays are flat, marine fish, named after the barbed spines, or stingers present on their long tails. They are related to sharks, and both fish, despite their fearsome reputation actually have a skeleton made of cartilage. read more