These fish typically weight between 545 and 2,205 pounds. Sunfish is closely related to the Pufferfish despite their size difference. The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest ...

A dead southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) discovered near the Azores in the Atlantic has taken the record for the world’s heaviest bony fish, weighing in at 2744 kilograms. While there are heavier ...

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A giant, ocean sunfish weighing more than 6,000 pounds was found in Portugal and the fish has posthumously set a world record for being the largest bony fish known to man, according to a recent report ...

A sunfish found near the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean weighed as much as an S.U.V. Scientists say it’s a sign that the sea’s largest creatures can live if we let them. By Annie Roth It was easy for ...

(CNN) - The heaviest bony fish was discovered in the Azores Archipelago, in Portugal. The giant, 3-ton sunfish was found dead, floating near Faial Island in December, but the details of the discovery ...