AN X-RAY OF A STINGRAY
The photograph above is an x-ray of Heliotrygon gomesi a freshwater stingray discovered in 2011 in the Amazon rain forest. The discovery was made by the research team of Nathan Lovejoy, a biologist at the University of Toronto in Scarborough; and Marcelo Rodrigues de Carvalho of the University of Sao Paolo in Brazil.
The stingray discovery was detailed in the Feb. 24, 2011 edition of the journal Zootaxa.













