Ocean sunfish weighing an estimated 1,000 pounds shows resiliency after possible great white shark attack off Tasmania.

Deputies said they identified the fish as a Mola Mola, also known as an ocean sunfish. The Mola Mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet vertically ...

He left PEOPLE in 2023. It's official. Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the largest recorded bony fish in history. When a giant sunfish (Mola alexandrini) surfaced last December near ...

This Facebook user's anti-ocean sunfish rant got a run for its money from a ocean sunfish lover. Credit: Cultura/REX/Shutterstock You must have seen it by now, but ...

It just really stuck out how bizarre and weird it looked." Sunfish, or mola, are large, round-bodied fish that can weigh thousands of kilograms. They are also know for their unique behaviour.

So when we saw the fish, that is what I first thought ... By far the most – 328 – were of the common mola (Mola mola), followed by 38 sightings of the bumperhead mola (Mola alexandrini ...

She has been intrigued with the fish form ever since. Since 2000, Thys and her colleagues have been traveling the world's oceans studying the giant ocean sunfish (mola). Though these fish can grow ...

The sunfish family includes the world's largest living bony fish, comprising three genera and five species ... For instance, the slender mola showed no traces of jellyfish in its stomach, instead ...