One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New Zealand biologist Marianne Nyegaard identified it from photographs and ...

I was looking at one of the largest and strangest fish I had ever seen. I never expected to see one of these animals in the wild, but when I did, it was even more astounding. Ocean sunfish, ...

From the Monterey Bay Aquarium: “The ocean sunfish ( Mola mola) looks like the invention of a mad scientist. Huge and flat, ...

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Climate change and humans going into the ocean add to the danger ocean sunfish are in. They are the largest bony fish species on the planet and have an average weight of 2,200 pounds.

The recently discovered ocean sunfish (Mola mola) may seem big. But these fish can grow up to ten feet long and weigh upwards of 5,000 pounds, according to the aquarium.

The hoodwinker was the biggest of the three this summer, measuring 7.3 feet across. The first ocean sunfish was a "relatively small" 5-footer, while the latest arrival measures in at 6.9 feet ...

Ocean sunfish weighing an estimated 1,000 pounds shows resiliency after possible great white shark attack off Tasmania. ... Ocean sunfish, or Mola molas, are the largest bony fishes on the planet ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A large ocean sunfish, measuring over six feet long, recently washed ashore on the Oregon Coast, according to the Seaside Aquarium. The fish – also known as a Mola mola ...

The hoodwinker was the biggest of the three this summer, measuring 7.3 feet across. The first ocean sunfish was a "relatively small" 5-footer, while the latest arrival measures in at 6.9 feet ...

The hoodwinker was the biggest of the three this summer, measuring 7.3 feet across. The first ocean sunfish was a "relatively small" 5-footer, while the latest arrival measures in at 6.9 feet ...