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Cownose rays

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August 23, 2018

Two cownose rays
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Underwater shot of cownose rays in a holding tank. Cownose rays migrate to Chesapeake Bay every summer to give birth to their pups and mate.

(Credit: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center)

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