When a giant sunfish (Mola alexandrini) surfaced last December near Faial Island in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic, the dead animal weighed in at nearly 6,050 lbs. and measured more than ...

In this case, the animal might not have been fully ... Scientists have identified three species of sunfish: Mola mola, Mola tecta and Mola alexandrini (known as the giant sunfish or bump-head ...

The SA Museum said while there were various types of sunfish, the one in question was "almost certainly a bump-head sunfish, Mola alexandrini ... who has seen the animal up close, told the ...