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Stingray

Period: Cretaceous

Age: 95 million years
Region: Lebanon

Stingrays, with their flat bodies, belong to the order Rajiformes. They are particularly com-
mon in the shallow seas of Europe and bury themselves in the sand. The male is approxi-
mately 70 cm (27 inches) long, and the female 125 cm (50 inches). There are as many as 180

individual species. The skin is thin and slippery. Their backs are brown and their stomachs
silvery. They have large chest fins attached to both sides of the body. The electric organs in
their tails are used solely for defensive purposes. These fish hunt at night and feed on small
fish, crustacean and plankton.

The 95-million-year-old fossil stingray in the picture proves that this life form has never
changed, that it never evolved.

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