Beachgoers were stunned when a massive, 7-foot-long (2 meters) fish with a round body, huge fins and bulging eyes washed up along the coast of Oregon. An expert identified the enormous species as a ...
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 ...
A massive ocean oddity that washed up on a northern Oregon beach this week turned out to be a recently discovered species of sunfish, according to the local aquarium. According to the Seaside Aquarium ...
GEARHART, Ore. — A massive, 2,000-pound fish washed up on the Oregon shore, but it was anything but an ordinary sunfish. A marine biologist realized the image of the fish carcass posted by Seaside ...
Inspired by their round disc-like shape, ocean sunfish were given the nickname mola, which in Latin means “millstone”. In addition to their odd appearance and elusive behavior, ocean sunfish are known ...