One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

The sunfish, or Mola mola, might just be the weirdest creature in the ocean. With its massive, flattened body, tiny mouth, and absent tail, this bizarre fish looks like it shouldn’t even exist ...

Inspired by their round disc-like shape, ocean sunfish were given the nickname mola, ... Some have been recorded releasing as many as 300 million eggs at a time, ...

Very little is known about sunfish reproduction except that the females have 3 million eggs, more than almost any other bony fish. The larval stages have just recently been found and photographed.

While fishing on the Ellen Diane Too, Ryan Cuprewich captured this video of an ocean sunfish 15 miles off the Hampton Beach coast. ... It is a mystery where they lay eggs or even where they hatch.

Even if it's just to hate on said ocean sunfish. P.S. Good effort, Scout Burns, but nothing can compare to THIS guy's perplexed rant at seeing an ocean sunfish IRL. "It's a sea MONSTA!" ...

Ocean Sunfish makes UAE fisherman's day Emirati hands over rare catch to Ras Al Khaimah environment officials for research Last updated: September 15, 2018 | 21:47 ...

The ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish, not including stingrays or sharks. Mola molas can weigh up to 5,000 pounds.