A questioner said:
Found this glass like tube “shell” washed up on a beach in North Caroline, any idea what it is?
Some of the comments:
- Stingray teeth
- I was gonna guess a guitar slide but, I was so far from the truth.
- I never new this! I’m today years old, and never thought stingrays have “teeth”
- Bet you could confirm at your local aquarium.
- Strange world, I literally just saw a post on another subreddit that showed Sting Ray Teeth. Its the only way I knew what these were …
- There are a lot of rays and skates off of our coast!
- Chinese fingertrap?
- They have suction cup like mouths, but I never knew they had teeth!!
- There’s a sting ray out there that needs dentures.
- This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time!! I live on the Great Lakes and have always loved water and collecting the treasure it leaves behind. Rocks, shells, beach glass, fossils… But sting ray teeth?! What a treasure!
- Manta in Spanish means blanket. No like those water blankets.
- This looked like a beautiful piece of jewelry to me with the shininess and way everything fits together so perfectly in geometric shapes like this, it’s just unbelievable how beautiful nature is. That the mouth of a stingray could like a beautiful bracelet.
- That’s pretty sweet. Couldn’t imagine getting attacked by one, which probably never really happens.
- This is nuts lol I watch every Nature show from Jacques Cousteau,The BBC, David Attenborough narrated and featured , Discovery, YouTube , PBS, Netflix .. you get the picture .. and have never seen this before lol. Now I know
