"It's still really painful like number eight or nine [on the pain scale]," a man says after being stung through his workboot.

Most famously, wildlife icon Steve Irwin was killed in 2006 after a barb pierced his chest. James Cook University stingray researcher Jaelen Myers said stingrays used their barbed tails as a ...

The giant freshwater stingray may be the world’s largest ... Each ray has a sharp barb on the base of its tail that can easily penetrate human skin and bone, much like a hunting arrow.