This 6,000-Pound Sunfish Is the Largest Bony Fish on Record
Oct 19, 2022 · Sunfish have huge, hulking round bodies, dorsal and anal fins, and a unique rounded rudder called a clavus formed when their back fin naturally folds into itself, per National Geographic. Droves...
List of largest fish - Wikipedia
The largest living bony fish (superclass Osteichthyes, which includes both ray-finned and lobe-finned fish) are the lesser known southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) followed by widely distributed and better known ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and, both being members of the order Tetraodontiformes.
This 5,000-Pound Behemoth Is the World's Heaviest Bony Fish
Dec 7, 2017 · The heaviest bony fish ever caught weighs in at a staggering 5,070 lbs. (2,300 kilograms). Now, scientists know its name. The fish is a Mola alexandrini ocean sunfish, researchers...
Sunfish weighing 6,000lbs is the world's heaviest ever bony fish
Oct 17, 2022 · According to a paper published in the Journal of Fish Biology, the enormous bump-head sunfish (Mola alexandrini), was discovered on December 9, 2021 in the waters off the Portuguese Azore islands...
3-ton marine monster is biggest bony fish ever found - New York Post
Oct 17, 2022 · A monster sunfish found dead off the Azores has tipped the scales as the heaviest bony fish ever discovered — shattering the previous record by nearly 1,000 pounds.
Heaviest bony fish - Guinness World Records
The heaviest bony fish are the sunfish (genus Mola), with adults obtaining an average length of 1.8 metres (6 feet) and weighing around 1,000 kilograms (2,200 pounds).
Record-breaking bony fish weighing 3 tons found - CNN
Oct 19, 2022 · 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).
A giant sunfish weighing more than 6,000 lbs is the heaviest bony fish …
October 20, 2022 / 11:14 AM EDT / CBS News. A 6,000-pound sunfish was discovered off the coast of Portugal last year – and scientists now say it is the heaviest bony fish in the world.
'Majestic' 3-ton sunfish sets a new world record for largest bony fish ...
Oct 14, 2022 · A gigantic, 3-ton sunfish recently discovered near a Portuguese island has set a new world record for the heaviest bony fish ever recorded, according to a new study.
Record-Breaker! World’s Heaviest Bony Fish Found Off the Azores
Nov 7, 2022 · A giant sunfish discovered off the coast of Portugal’s Azores archipelago in the North Atlantic, is believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish, weighing 2,744 kg (6049.49 lb). (Photo above is of the closely-related ocean sunfish, Mola mola.) The body of the huge fish was found floating near Faial Island last December.