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The maximum size recorded is 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) in length, [21] ... A tank at the Monterey Bay Aquarium provides a size comparison between an ocean sunfish and humans.
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 ...
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. Divers bump into a creature so big it could inhale a human being
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 ...
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.
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 hoodwinker sunfish is a congener of (in the same genus as) the more widely known ocean sunfish, Mola mola. Mola tecta, like other Mola species, has a flat, almost symmetrical oval shape. It has a smooth body shape, no bump and has a maximum length of 242 cm (about 7.9 feet). [5] It does not have spines in its fins nor real caudal fin (tail ...