The 400-pound stingray was nearly the length of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.
Officials said on Thursday that a survey crew was in the sound – which separates New York's Long Island and Connecticut – the day prior when they stumbled upon the sea creature. It was a"huge" roughtail stingray, they said, weighing an estimated 400 pounds.
Connecticut Fish and Wildlife officials stumbled upon a"rare" animal in the Long Island Sound – a massive 400-pound stingray. "These gentle giants are found along the Atlantic coast from New England to Florida but are relatively rare in Long Island Sound,"Roughtail stingrays do have venomous spines that could be deadly if used, but officials reminded that the animals"are not aggressive, and don't frequent nearshore waters where people wade and swim.
"However, as climate change has caused New England waters to warm, this species has become an increasingly common visitor to Long Island Sound," officials said."The Long Island Sound Trawl Survey is one of the primary tools...to document the 'new normal' that is rapidly being created right here in [Connecticut] by climate change."
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