Scrambled Stingrays, with a Side of Toast

We all know that birds eat fish, but who’s ever heard of birds eating mongo-sized sized stingrays? None, not even scientists, until recently…

Danny Dolan of Mississippi was out for a walk last week when he noticed a heron struggling to gulp down some large prey. Upon closer inspection, he saw that it was, to his surprise,  a stringray; Danny grabbed his camera and took several shots, and, as he later found out, these images are the first-ever scientific evidence that birds eat stingrays

Stingrays are a family—Dasyatidae—related to sharks. They’re named “stingrays” because they have a barbed stinger on their tail, used mainly for self-defense. But get this: the stinger can reach just over a foot, and is covered in a thin layer of skin in which there are venom glands! Yikes! That’s like drinking cobra juice! 

Want to read more? Check out a news article here, and make sure to read up on these fascinating fish in Weird n’ Wild creatures stingray card!