eagle ray
noun
: any of several widely distributed large active marine stingrays (family Myliobatidae) with broad pectoral fins
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Also along the path is Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion, where visitors get face-to-face encounters with eagle rays, leopard sharks, and rare bowmouth guitarfish.
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
Go beyond the sometimes-thronging piers in the main town of San Miguel to swim above car-size spotted eagle rays, stroll the deserted dunes of the east coast and explore milleniums-old Mayan ruins, now ruled by iguanas.
—New York Times, 13 Nov. 2025
Ecuadoran company Ecoventura’s 16-passenger Galapagos Sky offers expedition cruising and dive trips year-round to Wolf and Darwin islands and other sites known to attract mantas, eagle rays, and whale sharks.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Add to that eagle rays, turtles, eels and sardines, and Agboton is in heaven.
—Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 29 July 2025
In fact, throughout the world, orcas of every age have presented prey to humans, and just about everything was on the menu: from sea otters, harbor seals, and gray whales, to green turtles, eagle rays, starfish, jellyfish, and even common murres, just to name a few species.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
Go beyond the sometimes-thronging piers in the main town of San Miguel to swim above car-size spotted eagle rays, stroll the deserted dunes of the east coast and explore milleniums-old Mayan ruins, now ruled by iguanas.
—New York Times, 13 Nov. 2025
Ecuadoran company Ecoventura’s 16-passenger Galapagos Sky offers expedition cruising and dive trips year-round to Wolf and Darwin islands and other sites known to attract mantas, eagle rays, and whale sharks.
—Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025
Add to that eagle rays, turtles, eels and sardines, and Agboton is in heaven.
—Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 29 July 2025
In fact, throughout the world, orcas of every age have presented prey to humans, and just about everything was on the menu: from sea otters, harbor seals, and gray whales, to green turtles, eagle rays, starfish, jellyfish, and even common murres, just to name a few species.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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“Eagle ray.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eagle%20ray. Accessed 20 Dec. 2025.
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