In California's Monterey Bay, locals were recently treated to an unusual spectacle: a school of ocean sunfish, Mola mola, flapping around in the bay's Breakwater Cove. Also known as the ocean sunfish ...

This is no fish tale.The world's largest-known bony fish washed ashore on Crane Beach in Ipswich recently.The Mola mola, an ocean sunfish, can weigh as much as 550 to 2,500 pounds.The sunfish live on ...

North Carolinians who were cheering on swimmers during the final stretch of an open-water race off the coast of Wrightsville Beach over the weekend were shocked when a large dorsal fin sliced through ...

DENNIS — There have been 108 Mola mola strandings on Cape Cod this year, according to Carol “Krill” Carlson, whale biologist and part-time visiting lecturer at Bridgewater State University. Strandings ...

Nine miles off the San Diego coast in the open blue waters of Nine Mile Bank, a California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) plunges head first into the tough flesh of Earth’s largest bony fish: an ...