In fact, it’s suspected the sunfish, also known as a mola ... (Read about one of the world's biggest great white sharks.) At 6,049 pounds, the mola weighed more than the full starting lineup ...

A giant, ocean sunfish weighing more than 6,000 pounds was found in Portugal and the fish has posthumously set a world record for being the largest bony fish known to man, according to a recent ...

Sunfish (Mola mola) are among the largest fish in the world and can be seen slowly drifting by in almost every tropical ocean ...

Related: What's the biggest freshwater fish in the world? The previous world record for the heaviest bony fish was held by another giant sunfish caught in Japan in 1996, which weighed around 5,070 ...

This smashes the record of the previous largest bony fish, which was that of another giant sunfish from Japan in 1996, which weighed around 5,070 pounds. Stock image of a sunfish in an aquarium.

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. Researchers with Atlantic Naturalist Association were ...

The sunfish's head had a large contusion ... but also show that the ocean is still healthy enough to support the world's largest animals," the study reads. "However, they raise concerns about ...

(CNN) — A giant sunfish found floating dead in the Atlantic weighed in at almost 3 tons and is believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish. Researchers said the animal was found in ...

An expert identified the enormous species as a hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), which is one of the largest bony fish in the world and is rarely seen in the Northern Hemisphere. Seaside Aquarium ...

Weighing in at roughly 6,050 pounds—the size of a large SUV—the fish was 882 pounds heavier than the reigning bony fish world record-holder, a 5,070-pound sunfish discovered off the coast of ...

An expert identified the enormous species as a hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), which is one of the largest bony fish in the world and is rarely seen in the Northern Hemisphere. Seaside Aquarium ...