Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

The animal beats the record previously held by another giant sunfish caught off the coast of Kamogawa, Japan, in 1996 that weighed 5,070 lbs. Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily ...

(CNN) — To the surprise of researchers and sunfish enthusiasts worldwide, a more than 4,000-pound sunfish was found tangled in the nets of a tuna-fishing boat off the coast of Ceuta, an autonomous ...

The ocean sunfish, Mola mola, represents one of the most intriguing subjects in marine research due to its unique morphology, expansive geographic distribution, and complex behavioural ecology. Recent ...

A 6½-foot ocean sunfish washed ashore about a quarter-mile south of the Sunset Beach approach near Gearhart. Members of the genus Mola, these true bony fish — unlike sharks, which have only cartilage ...

“A large ocean sunfish (mola mola) just washed ashore about 1/4 mile south of the Sunset Beach approach,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook. “Measuring 6.5 feet in length, this monstrous fish ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A "relatively small" 5-foot sunfish washed ashore about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. According to Seaside Aquarium, the ocean sunfish, also ...

This fish certainly tipped the scales. A monster, nearly 3-ton sunfish found dead off Portugal has weighed in as the heaviest bony fish ever discovered. While the oceanic behemoth was discovered in ...

A colossal sunfish, possibly one of the largest on record, swam by a pair of paddleboarders in Laguna Beach, California, who "spent a good 30 minutes with the fish before it sank back down," they told ...

A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The giant sunfish, weighing a little more than 3 tons, was ...