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  2. Giant sunfish - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Ocean sunfish - Wikipedia

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    The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also ... Swim with giant sunfish in the open ocean - Tierney Thys; Skaphandrus.com Mola mola photos Archived 2016-01-05 at the Wayback ...

  4. Divers bump into a creature so big it could inhale a human being

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    Scuba divers encounter a giant sunfish. The world record of the biggest ocean sunfish is one that weighs more than 4000 pounds. Divers bump into a creature so big it could inhale a human being

  5. Divers come face-to-face with massive Sunfish - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 'This thing's heavy': Watch officers rescue giant sunfish ...

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    Ocean sunfish, or mola, are the heaviest of all the bony fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds and growing to be 10 feet long, according to National Geographic. The silvery-gray fish is huge and flat ...

  7. Mola (fish) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Opah - Wikipedia

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    Opahs, also commonly known as moonfish, sunfish, cowfish (not to be confused with Molidae), kingfish, and redfin ocean pan are large, colorful, deep-bodied pelagic lampriform fishes comprising the small family Lampridae (also spelled Lamprididae).

  9. Video of giant sunfish spotted off California makes big splash

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    Dec. 2 video of an ocean sunfish, spotted near Laguna Beach, Calif., has gone viral. The huge sea creature swam in between two paddleboarders.