When opened, we found hundreds of tiny eggs in the female squid
The eggs were a transparent yellow
Dissected: Stingray A stingray is very unique in its anatomy. Stingrays breed during the winter and the female stingray gives birth to live young usually between 5 and 15 baby stingrays, known as a litter. The baby stingrays develop inside the mother stingray for around 9 months and feed off the remaining yolk in their eggs sacks. Ecological Role of Stingrays. Research has established stingrays of every variety as upper-level predators, meaning that they hunt and consume other animals, even those that consume other organisms themselves. Their foods of choice include mollusks, crabs, small fishes, and worms.