Here’s a breakdown of the most common and popular sunfishes in America. And it’s almost a guarantee that at least one of these types of sunfish is swimming less than a few miles from your house.

The following post is authored by Catherine Chen as part of the Sizing Ocean Giants project. This post originally occurred on the Story of Size. Sixty million times. That’s really big, but just how ...

Today's guest post is by Natasha Phillips, a marine biologist and PhD researcher based at Queen's University Belfast, interested in the movement ecology, diet and energetics of ocean sunfishes ...

Ocean sunfishes can be classified into three species which Sawai's team temporarily called Mola species A, Mola species B, and Mola species C, respectively. Of the three species, ...

Ocean sunfishes count among the world's largest bony fish, and have for centuries attracted interest from seafarers because of their impressive size and shape.

Whitefish, Arctic char, threespine stickleback and some sunfishes display quite discrete groups living in the same lakes but utilizing different food resources in order to survive. The phenomenon ...

Very little is known about sunfishes' early lives, and their adorable, bug-size larvae can only be identified at species level via DNA sequencing. Sign up for the Live Science daily newsletter now.