What Are Stingrays? What do stingrays look like? How do they
behave? What do you need to know about Stingrays? What do they
look like? Stingrays are flat creatures that to many observers
may not even appear to be alive. They typically look like
doormats. They are usually fairly large (typically, they reach
about three-feet across their bodies and can be more than six-
feet long), and they are usually dark gray in appearance. The
heads of stingrays is barely noticeable, protruding only
slightly from the remainder of its disk-like body. The eyes are
found on top of their heads and they have spines running in a
fairly straight line back to their tails. Their tails are
generally long and somewhat narrow. How do they behave? These
animals are named for their spines--they produce venom. The
scales have glands and passages underneath the skin that allow
them to create venom and spit them out their corresponding
spines. If they're attacked by a would-be predator, the stingray
points its spines at the creature and fire