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

An ocean sunfish washed ashore about 1/4 mile south of the Sunset Beach approach,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook.

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

While most people are probably more familiar with M. alexandrini ’s close cousin, the Mola mola, ocean sunfish are just one of those animals that inspire “primal curiosity”, says Thys.

A trip to show visitors around St Croix Island in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, turned into the sighting of a lifetime for skipper Jake Keeton when they saw an ocean sunfish weighing about 500kg ...

A trip to show visitors around St Croix Island in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, turned into the sighting of a lifetime for skipper Jake Keeton when they saw an ocean sunfish weighing about 500kg ...

There are three different species of sunfish in the genus mola: mola mola, mola tecta and mola alexandrini. All three … are widely distributed throughout the world’s oceans, except for the ...

A peculiar marine creature, known as a Mola mola or ocean sunfish, has been discovered on an Oregon beach.

While this fish is only a little over 5 feet long, the aquarium said that Mola molas, or ocean sunfish, can grow up to 10 feet long and weigh as much as 5,000 pounds.

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.