Likewise, human vessels frequently injure or kill big ocean creatures in surface collisions. In fact, it’s suspected the sunfish, also known as a mola, may have died from a ship strike ...

Inspired by their round disc-like shape, ocean sunfish were given the nickname mola, which in Latin means “millstone”. In ...

A 6,000-pound sunfish was discovered off the coast of Portugal last year – and scientists now say it is the heaviest bony fish in the world. Researchers with Atlantic Naturalist Association were ...

This smashes the record of the previous largest bony fish, which was that of another giant sunfish from Japan in 1996, which weighed around 5,070 pounds. Stock image of a sunfish in an aquarium.

A giant, ocean sunfish weighing more than 6,000 pounds was found in Portugal and the fish has posthumously set a world record for being the largest bony fish known to man, according to a recent ...

(CNN) — A giant sunfish found floating dead in the Atlantic weighed in at almost 3 tons and is believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish. Researchers said the animal was found in ...

A rare giant hoodwinker sunfish that washed ashore Gearhart beach in Oregon could be the largest of its species ever sampled. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

A 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish that washed up on a beach in Seaside, Oregon, this week could be the largest specimen ever sampled for DNA. The rare hoodwinker sunfish, so named because it went ...

Capt. Freddy Gamboa is on a roll, thanks in part to a big sunfish. The Andreas' Toy Charters captain has tracked down the cobia on two successful trips this week. The first one, a 45-pounder ...

An expert identified the enormous species as a hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), which is one of the largest bony fish in the world and is rarely seen in the Northern Hemisphere. Seaside Aquarium ...