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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. List of largest fish - Wikipedia

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    The largest shark in the fossil record is the megalodon (Otodus megalodon), a colossal Neogene lamniform. The range of estimates of the maximum length for megalodon are from 17 to 20.3 m (56 to 67 ft), with a mass ranging from 65 to 114 short tons (59 to 103 t). [41] [42] [43] It is also regarded as the largest macro-predatory fish ever.

  4. Ocean sunfish - Wikipedia

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    The ocean sunfish (Mola mola), also known as the common mola, is one of the largest bony fish in the world. It is the type species of the genus Mola , and one of five extant species in the family Molidae .

  5. Rare 300-lb. sunfish washes up ashore - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Molidae - Wikipedia

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    They are also the largest of the ray-finned bony fish, with the southern sunfish, Mola alexandrini, recorded at 4.6 m (15 ft) in length [3] and 2,744 kg (6,049 lb) in weight. The family name comes from the ocean sunfish 's scientific name Mola mola , both its genus name and epithet come from the Latin word mola for " millstone " because of its ...

  8. See the rare, 7-foot sunfish that washed ashore in northern ...

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    A rare hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore in northern Oregon Monday, with the massive fish surprising local residents. The over seven-foot sunfish, also known as Mola tecta, was found on Gearhart ...

  9. Osteichthyes - Wikipedia

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    The giant sunfish is the heaviest bony fish in the world, in late 2021, Portuguese fishermen found a dead sunfish near the coast of Faial Island, Azores, with a weight of 2,744 kilograms (6,049 lb) and 3.6 metres (12 ft) tall and 3.5 metres (11 ft) long established the biggest giant sunfish ever captured. [24]