The ocean is full of unusual animals, but few catch people off guard quite like the mola mola. It’s a massive, slow-moving disk of a fish with fins that seem placed almost at random, and it drifts ...

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 ...

A giant sunfish, also known as a mola mola, has washed up on an Oregon beach for the third time this summer, an aquarium reported. The fish washed ashore at Hug Point State Park in Clatsop County, the ...

For much of his life, Patrick Webster has slipped into a wetsuit, strapped on his elaborate camera system and dove into the world’s oceans from Antarctica to Monterey to capture images of underwater ...

My first view of an ocean sunfish was on a wall at a natural history museum during my freshman year in college. At first glance, I thought that someone had displayed half of a fish. The tail was ...