Want something to break up your doom-scrolling? First, we had "Celebrities Impersonating Sharks" and that was a hit... so, introducing "Celebrities Impersonating #FlatSharks."

A day early for the #FlatSharkFriday #scicomm but it is keeping me entertained! Hope you enjoy it.

AN FYI: photo credit for the stingray/skate photos will be depicted by

"Why the pancake emoji, Meli?"

These #flatsharks are sometimes lovingly called "majestic flap flaps" (maybe just by me....) which makes me think of flapjacks aka pancakes. There ya go.

Let's start off with the beautiful Selena Gomez and spotted eagle ray (Aetobatus narinari) sporting a black-and-white motif. Spotted eagle rays are globally distributed throughout tropical and warm temperate waters!

: Shutterstock

Black and white spots are also a hit for Priyanka Chopra and Itaituba river stingray (Potamotrygon albimaculata). Also known as the Tapajós river stingray, they are a freshwater critter in the family Potamotrygonidae!

: Flickr

Purple Eagle Ray (Myliobatis hamlyni) and Will Smith have one thing in common: style. Their distribution is poorly known, with only a few specimens being observed around Australia, Japan, and Taiwan.

:Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO

Kylie Jenner and the sapphire skate (Notoraja sapphira) look lovely in this colour! This deepwater skate has been described from the slopes of the Norfolk Ridge (a submarine ridge running between New Caledonia & New Zealand).

: Séret, B. and P.R. Last, 2009

Check out Donald Glover and the masked stingaree (Trygonoptera personata) matching! This stingaree is endemic to southwestern Australia where it feasts on polychaetes and crustaceans.

: Australian National Fish Collection, CSIRO

Of course Blake Lively will be on this list- her bright colours seem a nod to the blue spotted ribbontail ray (Taeniura lymma). These animals are found on the sandy substrates of the Indo-Pacific Ocean.

: Oceana

Ooh, strike a pose! Both Janelle Monáe and this manta are rockin' the black-and-white. Mantas are one of the largest fish in the world, reaching up to 29 feet (8.8 m) in width.

: Nature Picture Library

Perhaps Zendaya wore this rosy number in a nod to Inspector Clouseau, the only recorded pink manta ray in the world! The colouration is just an unusual and unique expression of the skin’s melanin.

: Kristian Laine

The western shovelnose ray (Aptychotrema vincentiana) and Morgan Freeman look dashing in this yellowish-brown coloured outfit. These rays are found off southern and western Australia up to depths of 125 meters deep!

: Rudie H. Kuiter

Mantas can also be all-black, as seen by this individual & Emma Watson who got the memo. DYK: A comprehensive study of the DNA of mantas & mobulas reclassified mantas in the genus Mobula in the Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society a few years ago?

Winnie Harlow and the abyssal skate (Bathyraja ishiharai) are stunning in this neutral color palette look. This deepwater skate is known from only a few specimens from southwest Australia! Ever heard of them?

: M. Stehmann, ICHTHYS

So hear me out... Chadwick Boseman and the false shark ray (Rhynchorhina mauritaniensis) may be wearing different patterns... BUT THIS WORKS. They are found in the North-East Atlantic off of... you guessed it. Mauritania!

: B. Valadou

Samul L. Jackson and the giant shovelnose ray (Glaucostegus typus) look great here! The giant shovelnose rays are widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific from India to eastern Australia. Here, they enjoy a healthy appetite of prawns, crabs, small fishes, and cephalopods.

Reese Witherspoon must have gotten a fashion tip from the clearnose skate (Raja eglanteria) for this outfit! This species of #flatshark is restricted to the Western Atlantic (seen from Massachusetts to the Gulf of Mexico).

: Andy Murch

Superstars Laverne Cox & the largetooth sawfish (Pristis pristis) are S T U N N I N G in this neutral look. Sawfish are actually rays that have chainsaw-like snouts called rostrums!

: Richard Pillans

The QUEEN that is Viola Davis and the boreal skate (Amblyraja hyperborea) are gorgeous here. These skates are found in the temperate parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans!

: SERPENT project

The ornate numbfish (Narcine ornata) and Halle Berry are a vision here! They are found on continental shelves where they feed on small invertebrates (like yummy worms).

: CSIRO National Fish Collection

OHHHH BOY. Taraji P. Henson and the coffin ray (Hypnos monopterygius) are looking splendid in this pink and grey ensemble. The coffin ray is much like myself enjoys the tropical and warm temperate waters of Australia.

: Sylke Rohrlach

Kerry Washington & the bull ray (Aetomylaeus bovinus) are stunners in stripes! This subtropical ray is adorned with grey-blue strips on the dorsal side and has a creamy underbelly.

: Alamy Stock Photo

Kate Hudson and the ghost skate (Notoraja hirticauda) rocked this red-carpet worthy look. The ghost skate is found on the continental slopes in Western Australia at depths of 500-760 metres (m).

: CSIRO National Fish Collection

Oprah and the bowmouth guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma) get an A+ from me! These animals primarily feed on crustaceans and mollusks that they hunt for on the ocean floor and sediment.

: Aquarium of the Pacific