Most sunfish spend their days swimming slowly through the world’s oceans, feasting on jellyfish or soaking up the sun near the water’s surface. In the wild, these behemoth creatures—which ...

The sunfish is a 5,000-pound floating mystery. It’s massive, completely useless at swimming, and shaped like a pancake - let’s discuss.

I could see sunfish swimming in tight, seemingly-choreographed schools below the surface, with blue, green, and orange shimmering off their sides. The dock was long and rickety. Three older ...

A picture posted by the aquarium shows the sunfish swimming in its tank, one of its eyes turned toward makeshift “people” made from cardboard cutout faces and aquarium uniforms on hangers ...

The solitary sunfish, whose sex and age have yet to be ... It moved its eyes whenever visitors came close to the tank and would swim toward people peering into the tank. Miyazawa felt confident ...

The spring pygmy sunfish has been teetering on the brink of extinction for the 70-plus years it's been known to science. Existing only in one spring complex in the Tennessee River watershed in Alabama ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real challenge faced by staff at a Japanese aquarium when they noticed their sunfish was ...