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The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, disk-like body and a distinctive bulge on its head and chin, this massive ...

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 ...

Brian Stone of Salem, a content creator, photographer, and “avid fisherman,” had a photographer’s dream come true recently. In September, while salmon fishing solo off the Oregon Coast, he had an ...

NEWPORT, R.I. (WPRI) — Holy Mola mola! Marine biologists with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) spotted an ocean sunfish, also known as Mola mola, while working off the ...

“A large ocean sunfish (mola mola) just washed ashore about 1/4 mile south of the Sunset Beach approach,” the Seaside Aquarium posted on Facebook. “Measuring 6.5 feet in length, this monstrous fish ...

A 6½-foot ocean sunfish washed ashore about a quarter-mile south of the Sunset Beach approach near Gearhart. Members of the genus Mola, these true bony fish — unlike sharks, which have only cartilage ...

The ocean sunfish was found near Sunset Beach in Oregon, an aquarium said. Photo by Fineas Anton via Unsplash A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, has been discovered washed up dead on an Oregon beach, the ...