The first time I saw an eagle ray was when we visited the largest open air aquarium in the world which happens to be in the Hotel Atlantis complex on Paradise Island, just across from Nassau, capital of the Bahamas.
That eagle ray looked more like a futuristic plane to me than a fish. Compare it with the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber (Google Image Search). Isn't the similarity of shape amazing?
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