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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Snorkeling and diving are popular activities in coastal areas, especially for folks on vacation. Seeing underwater isn't something ...

The ocean sunfish looks like an evolutionary mistake: no tail, no ribs, no axial swimming muscles, and a body that appears half-finished. Yet it is the heaviest bony fish on Earth, reaching weights ...

(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 ...

In the open ocean, far from coasts and categories, there is a fish that seems to defy the logic of design. It is round where ...

The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of several unusual-looking sea creatures to wash ashore in Oregon so far this summer. Seaside Aquarium via Facebook A rare ocean sunfish has washed up on a beach ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A "relatively small" 5-foot sunfish washed ashore about a half mile south of Sunset Beach, just of north of Seaside in Oregon. According to Seaside Aquarium, the ocean sunfish, also ...

Snorkeling and diving are popular activities in coastal areas, especially for folks on vacation. Seeing underwater isn't something most people can do every day, and you never know what kinds of unique ...