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INTRODUCING RAYS Swimming along like square pancakes with long, pointy tails, rays are some of the strangest-looking creatures in the ocean. There are many different animals in the ray family, including stingrays, manta rays, eagle rays, electric rays, skates, and sawfish. Within these groups, there are actually over six-hundred different species that are considered to be rays. Closely related to sharks, rays consist of cartilage instead of bone. This is just one of the many things that rays have in common with their sharp- toothed cousins.

Rays are fairly easy to identify, but did you know there are over 600 species of rays? These are eagle rays.

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