Yet, the short-tail stingray can reach up to 6.9 feet wide and weigh over 770 pounds. Similarly, giant freshwater stingrays can grow up to 8 feet wide and weigh up to 800 pounds.

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 ...

Hugely popular nature conservationist Steve Irwin, known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was famously killed by a short-tail stingray - the largest stingray species in the world, with adults growing up ...

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.