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The Lisbon Oceanarium in Portugal has ocean sunfish showcased in the main tank, [56] and sunfish are also on display at the Denmark Nordsøen Oceanarium. [57] In Kamogawa Sea World the ocean sunfish named Kukey, who started captivity in 1982, set a world record for captivity for 2,993 days, living for eight years. Kukey was 72 cm (2.36 ft) at ...
The giant sunfish or bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini), [3] (also known as the Ramsay's sunfish, southern sunfish, southern ocean sunfish, short sunfish or bump-head sunfish in various parts of the world), [4] is a fish belonging to the family Molidae. It is closely related to the more widely known Mola mola, and is found in the Southern ...
Scuba divers encounter a giant sunfish. The world record of the biggest ocean sunfish is one that weighs more than 4000 pounds.
These divers ran into a super-rare giant sunfish off the coast of Portugal. They only spent 15 minutes with giant Nemo. Photographer Miguel Pereira said in the video's description on YouTube, "A ...
The record size ocean sunfish crashed into a boat off Bird Island, Australia in 1910 and measured 4.3 m (14 ft) from fin-to-fin, 3.1 m (10 ft) in length and weighed about 2,300 kg (5,100 lb), [1] while the other record for the biggest bony fish is yet held by a Mola alexandrini which was also coincidentally 2,300 kg (5,100 lb) in mass and 3 m ...
Fisherman Sean Bailey captured impressive close-up footage of a huge mola lurking next to his boat off San Diego, California.Found in temperate and tropical oceans, ocean sunfish (Mola mola ...
A sunfish, also called a mola, is any fish in the genus Mola (family Molidae). The fish develop their truncated, bullet-like shape because the back fin, which is present at birth, never grows. The fish develop their truncated, bullet-like shape because the back fin, which is present at birth, never grows.
The Ocean Sunfish, also known as the Mola mola, looks like a huge fish head, with a wedge of a tail. You can find them in tropical oceans around the world. So what was this 7-footer doing on a ...