Beachgoers were stunned when a massive, 7-foot-long (2 meters) fish with a round body, huge fins and bulging eyes washed up along the coast of Oregon. An expert identified the enormous species as a ...

ENCINITAS, Calif. — San Diego surfers are never technically alone in the water, but this week a giant ocean sunfish, or mola mola, swam right alongside them before sadly washing ashore at Cardiff ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A large ocean sunfish, measuring over six feet long, recently washed ashore on the Oregon Coast, according to the Seaside Aquarium. The fish – also known as a Mola mola – ...

(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 ...

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 report ...

When Rich German was paddling out at sea along the coast of Laguna Beach, he didn't expect to stumble across a "Mola mola," an ocean sunfish. On Dec. 2, German, founder of Project O and host of Our ...

OREGON COAST, Ore. — Another massive Mola mola (sunfish) washed up on the Oregon Coast, marking the third dead sunfish the region has seen since June. The Seaside Aquarium said the Mola mola washed ...

My first view of an ocean sunfish was on a wall at a natural history museum during my freshman year in college. At first glance, I thought that someone had displayed half of a fish. The tail was ...

FOLLY BEACH, S.C. (WCBD)- Holy Mola! A group of local fisherman captured a rare sight when they spotted a Mola mola in the water off Folly Beach last month. Quincy Wilson was fishing off the Folly ...

A whale researcher in British Columbia, Canada, last week experienced a "once-in-a-lifetime" encounter with a rare and enormous sunfish that he spotted from his home. Jared Towers, who lives on ...

The sunfish had dark gray skin and rounded grooves in its flanks, which led Ostalé-Valriberas to think it was of the species Mola alexandrini. “I see, on one hand, the luck of finding it and finding ...