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In a freak accident, Steve Irwin died after being pierced through the heart by a usually chill stingray while filming an underwater documentary in a lagoon off the Great Barrier Reef.

There are also interactive touch pools for invertebrates and stingrays.

They feed on the abundant stingrays — the true wildlife threat for beachgoers in the Southland — but otherwise mind their own business.

The inside of a myliobatid stingray tail is remarkably complex, the scientists learned.

Not to mention, you could step on a stingray or a sea urchin.