A team of researchers is tapping into the ocean’s vast body of free-floating environmental DNA to catch blooms before they ...

Despite their impressive dimensions and intimidating appearance, ocean sunfish are gentle giants. They pose no threat to humans and spend much of their time drifting leisurely near the ocean surface.

The sunfish, or Mola mola, might just be the weirdest creature in the ocean. With its massive, flattened body, tiny mouth, and absent tail, this bizarre fish looks like it shouldn’t even exist ...

Predacious marine mammals may go after a mola’s internal organs. Sea lions have been observed biting ocean sunfish, not to eat them, but apparently just for sport. Rich Herrmann Smaller molas do at ...

The ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish, not including stingrays or sharks. Mola molas can weigh up to 5,000 pounds. The slow-moving fish looks like the "invention of a mad scientist ...

Ocean sunfish, or Mola molas, are the heaviest bony fishes on the planet and can weigh nearly 5,000 pounds. (Sharks and rays, which can be heavier, do not have bones and are not in this category).

Although the snorkelers didn't bat an eye at the massive fish, video viewers are taken aback by the size of the gigantic Ocean Sunfish, or mola mola. That's one enormous fish!

Footage has surfaced showing an estimated 1,000-pound ocean sunfish swimming off Tasmania, Australia, with a massive chunk missing from its tail section. Which begs the question, asked by the ...

Footage has surfaced showing an estimated 1,000-pound ocean sunfish swimming off Tasmania, Australia, with a massive chunk missing from its tail section. Which begs the question, asked by the ...