National Geographic explorer and ray expert Andrea Marshall, alongside her team, have tagged 11 rare and massive smalleye stingrays off the coast of the Bazaruto Archipelago.
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Shown above, a smalleye stingray visits a cleaning station on a coral reef, where fish and other invertebrates clean bigger animals of parasites.Smalleyes have a lethal stinging spine the length of a human forearm.Marshall is also the founder of the Mozambique-based Marine Megafauna Foundation.Smalleye stingrays, also known as Megatrygon microps, can measure 10 feet in length and over 8 feet in width, according to NatGeo.
Researchers hope that tagging these stingrays will provide an answer to why they travel as far as they do.
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