The bumphead sunfish (Mola alexandrini) is one of the strangest and most impressive giants in the ocean. With a flattened, ...

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 team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The giant sunfish, weighing a little more than 3 tons, was ...

A giant sunfish believed to be the world's heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal, weighing a whopping 2,744 kilograms (3 tons). Researchers said the animal was ...

Fish are one of the species in the world with the most diversity. These aquatic animals come in different shapes, colors, and skeletal compositions. Some are endemic to freshwater habitats, and others ...

An "unusual" and "strange looking fish" washed up onto an Oregon coast earlier this month, shocking people with its gargantuan size. At first, experts thought it was just a "run of the mill ocean ...

The animal beats the record previously held by another giant sunfish caught off the coast of Kamogawa, Japan, in 1996 that weighed 5,070 lbs. Glenn Garner is a form writer-reporter who worked heavily ...

A bulbous corpse found bobbing off a tiny island in the Azores is the heaviest bony fish ever measured. The record breaker is a bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini). Taller than it is long, with a ...

(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 ...

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 123, No. 3/4 (Fall 2020), pp. 441-447 (7 pages) Palaeonotopterus greenwoodi Forey is an enigmatic Cretaceous bony fish (Teleostei: ...