Gary Bell/ Oceanwide / Stingaree (Trygonoptera sp), Port Phillip Bay, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia

Sean Crane / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana), Shark Ray Alley, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Fred Bavendam / Eastern Shovelnose Stingaree (Trygonoptera imitata), New South Wales, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Kapala Stingaree (Urolophus kapalensis) swimming over ocean floor, New South Wales, Australia

Pete Oxford / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) on coral reef, Jardines de la Reina National Park, Cuba

Fred Bavendam / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) buried in the sand, Bali, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Common Stingaree (Trygonoptera testacea) on ocean floor, New South Wales, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) on ocean floor, Bali, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Crossback Stingaree (Urolophus cruciatus) on ocean floor, Tasmania, Australia

Luciano Candisani / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) swimming along ocean floor, Rocas Atoll, Brazil

Luciano Candisani / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana), Rocas Atoll, Brazil

Luciano Candisani / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) swimming, Rocas Atoll, Brazil

Norbert Wu / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) stings with barb on tail, Fiji

Tui De Roy / Orca (Orcinus orca) male eating Stingray (Dasyatis sp), Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador

Norbert Wu / Stingray (Dasyatidae) pair, California

Ralph Pace / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) buried in sand, Saint Eustatius, Caribbean

Sean Crane / Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) over seagrass, Shark Ray Alley, Ambergris Caye, Belize

Fred Bavendam / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) swimming over ocean floor, New South Wales, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) swimming over reef, New South Wales, Australia

Fred Bavendam / Blue-spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii) on sand bottom, Bali, Indonesia

Fred Bavendam / Kapala Stingaree (Urolophus kapalensis), New South Wales, Australia

Shane Gross / Stingray, caught while fishing for other species, is killed to be used as bait for shark fishing off a purpose-built fishing dock in Pensacola, Florida, USA.