The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, disk-like body and a distinctive bulge on its head and chin, this massive ...

A giant sunfish believed to be the world's heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, weighing a whopping 2,744 kilograms (3 tons). Researchers said the animal was ...

The ocean sunfish looks like an evolutionary mistake: no tail, no ribs, no axial swimming muscles, and a body that appears half-finished. Yet it is the heaviest bony fish on Earth, reaching weights ...

Inspired by their round disc-like shape, ocean sunfish were given the nickname mola, which in Latin means “millstone”. In addition to their odd appearance and elusive behavior, ocean sunfish are known ...

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A massive sunfish in need of desperate help was saved by a Florida deputy on Tuesday after it managed to get itself stuck. The Mola (ocean sunfish), who are known to be ...

No deep-sea adventure is complete without an unusually enormous fish sighting. Luis Miguel Gutierrez Bringas, a sea-diving tour operator, recently captured video of a massive and seemingly unbothered ...

A research team led by Profs. Zhu Min, Lu Jing, and Zhu You'an from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences published two back-to-back ...

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