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

A giant southern ocean fish was found in Azores, Portugal, and it reportedly weighed more than 6,000 pounds. The Atlantic Naturalist Association says the sunfish broke a world record.

Scientists have identified three species of sunfish: Mola mola, Mola tecta and Mola alexandrini (known as the giant sunfish or bump-head sunfish). They live in oceans around the world, except for ...

The heaviest sunfish previously recorded was also a Mola alexandrini, weighing 5,070 pounds, discovered in 1996 in Japan, the researchers say. The fish was weighed with a crane scale, by raising ...

5-foot ocean sunfish near Sunset Beach looks large, but they get twice as big. ... There are three different species of sunfish in the genus Mola: Mola mola, Mola tecta, and Mola alexandrini.

A 5-foot ocean sunfish, also known as a Mola mola, washes up about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. Author: Alex Jensen Published: 11:48 AM PDT August 19, 2024 ...

The ‘great oddballs’ of the ocean. According to Dr. Tierney Thys, a marine biologist and research associate at the California Academy of Sciences, the Mola alexandrini is “truly one of the ...

In 1908, a Mola mola was hit by an Australian steamship and then deemed heaviest sunfish in The Guinness Book of Animal Records. It weighed roughly 4,927 pounds. But some doubted whether that was ...

A 5-foot ocean sunfish, also known as a Mola mola, washes up about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. Author: Alex Jensen Published: 11:48 AM PDT August 19, 2024 ...

A 5-foot ocean sunfish, also known as a Mola mola, washes up about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. Author: Alex Jensen Published: 11:48 AM PDT August 19, 2024 ...

A 5-foot ocean sunfish, also known as a Mola mola, washes up about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. Author: Alex Jensen Published: 12:48 PM MDT August 19, 2024 ...