Slip your fingers into the water at the newly renovated Stingray Beach, and if you are lucky, one of the fish will swim up and say hello. Or maybe even let you feed it dinner.
Visitors watch passing stingrays at the recently reopened Stingray Beach at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. The facility had closed last summer after the animals there died.
Theo Summers, 3, tries to touch stingrays as they swim past, while his father, Alec, holds him during a visit. The stingrays are used to human interaction.
Photos: People visit reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium
Theo Summers, 3, tries to touch stingrays as they swim past, while his father, Alec, holds him during a visit to the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 .
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
The Gray family of Des Moines try to touch passing stingrays during a visit to the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 .
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
A stingray swims up to a visitor’s hand at the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 .
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
Maggie VanRooyan lowers her hand into the water as she tries to feed stingrays at the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
The Welander family of Milford try to touch passing stingrays during a visit to the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 .
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
Stingrays swim through the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026 .
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
A visitor feeds a stingray at the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
JOSEPH CIEMBRONIEWICZ, THE WORLD-HERALD
Visitors try to touch passing stingrays at the recently reopened Stingray Beach habitat at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in Omaha on Wednesday, June 10, 2026.
Visitors watch passing stingrays at the recently reopened Stingray Beach at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium. The facility had closed last summer after the animals there died.
Theo Summers, 3, tries to touch stingrays as they swim past, while his father, Alec, holds him during a visit. The stingrays are used to human interaction.
