A rare giant sunfish
weighing more than a car washes up on a beach in Australia
By Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN
March,20
(CNN)A weird looking, two fishermen found enormous sunfish on the shore at Coorong National Park in South
Australia over the weekend .
The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was spotting at the mouth of the Murray River by Steven Jones, the supervisor of a cockle fishing crew, and his
colleague Hunter Church when they’re at the boat.
"He was thinking it a piece of driftwood as they were driving past on the boat," Jones' partner Linette Grzelak, who posted the photos of
the fish on Facebook, told CNN. "None of them had seen anything like this before."
"They find all sorts of sea life along
the beaches they dig but it has been mostlying sharks and seals. it was something very different," Grzelak added.
"Steven said it was very weighting and its was skin very leatherying like a rhinoceros."
National Parks South Australia said these sunfish are the
world's largest bony fish and they can weigh more than a car.
The Mola mola, was discoverring
and named only in 2017, feeds largely on jellyfish and can grow well over 2 meters
(more than 6 feet) -- although this one was "only" 1.8 meters long,
putting it on the smaller end of the scale, according to the South Australian
Museum.
"The Mola mola is known for its large
size, odd flattened body shape and fins," the museum's fish collection manager
Ralph Foster told CNN via e-mail. He added that he is able to identifying the fish from the markings on its tail and the shape of its head.
Foster added that the fish is also known as a
sunfish because it enjoys basking in the sun. Their size and sun bathing habit
mean they can be hit by boats, and some are so large they actually sink yachts,
he said.
"Researchers will have been putting satellite tags and data loggers on these fish and found they will come to the surface and lay on their side on the surface, hence the name the sunfish," Foster
said. "Once they are warm enough they dive down several hundreds of meters
and feed on
jellyfish and stay down there for lengthy periods of time."
"We know very little about them. It's
only in the last few years that technology has
allowed us to start learning about them," Foster explained.
"The fish was thought to be a
purely Southern Hemisphere species but just a couple of weeks ago one made the news when it turned
up on a Californian beach, highlighting how little we know about sunfish in
general."
The museum said there's no way of knowing why
this specimen died.
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Article source : CNN.com
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