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To beat the summer heat, many of us in the Southern Hemisphere are hitting the beach—and this raises our chances of encountering potentially dangerous marine life beneath the waves. So should we be ...

You’re wading in the sandy shallows off the California coast when your foot touches something soft and silky. As you take your next step, you experience a sudden shock: first a sharp pain, then an ...

SAN DIEGO — Rising temperatures are drawing crowds to San Diego's beaches, prompting lifeguards to issue an urgent reminder about stingray safety. The region's lifeguards have fielded an increasing ...

Have you been to a South Carolina beach recently? You may have walked right past a stingray and not even realized. If you enjoy spending time in the surf off, be sure to be observant. A day at the ...

"We don't really know too much about not just estuary stingrays, or stingrays in general," Molly Grew says. "There's hardly any research on it, and we just need more research so we can better conserve ...

Stingray 12 is surprisingly calm for an animal that’s getting squeegeed. The ray, roughly the size of a dinner plate, is submerged in the sand of a tank about the size of a chest freezer; even the ...

Have you visited a South Carolina beach recently? You may have walked past a stingray and not even known it. If you enjoy spending time in the surf off of any of the Palmetto State’s famed beaches, ...

If you ever wanted to touch a stingray, now you can at the Sandoway Discovery Center in Delray Beach. The new stingray touch tank recently opened, and visitors can feel the supple skin of the six ...