Talk:Story and History/@comment-27.244.14.88-20130819154517/@comment-15504212-20130819155935

Very true. Skates and rays are very closely related and I think most people get the 'sting ray' association from the fact that the sand skates have a tail that shoots barbed projectiles. It could be part of the genetic manipulation done by the Orokin (as the desert skates live in dry sand and have a number of unusual appendages) but nit-picking between various species of the same superorder, when for all we know it could have originally been a squirrel that mutated out of control and is only called a skate because it looks like one, seems unimportant.