Though Gary had not heard of the Broad Street stingray, the fish has become a New Orleans social media sensation — a small one at least. The Broad Street stingray in New Orleans.

The tails can be about an inch wide and as long as one foot. Though researchers don’t know how long a stingray can survive in the wild, in confinement by humans they can live up to 10 years. Why ...

The broad stingray is fairly common in Hawai‘i, but rarely seen by divers and snorkelers because it likes to feed in calm bays where the visibility is not very good. This solid-gray ray can get ...

To understand this anatomical feature, Dr. Chaumel and her colleague George Lauder took a closer look at the tails of cownose rays, a type of stout stingray with a double-lobed snout.