A sunfish species described only a dozen years ago is under state protection, with a Lockport area population puzzling researchers with decreasing numbers. The New York State Department of ...

Beachgoers were stunned when a massive, 7-foot-long (2 meters) fish with a round body, huge fins and bulging eyes washed up along the coast of Oregon. An expert identified the enormous species as a ...

A rare 7.3-foot hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on the Oregon coast earlier this week, the Seaside Aquarium said. The massive aquatic species was found north of Seaside in northwestern Oregon along ...

The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is one of several unusual-looking sea creatures to wash ashore in Oregon so far this summer. Seaside Aquarium via Facebook A rare ocean sunfish has washed up on a beach ...

A giant and rarely seen hoodwinker sunfish has washed up on a beach in northern California, baffling marine biologists and igniting curiosity among beachgoers. The species, Mola tecta, was first ...

Sunfish is a collective term that includes a variety of fish species that live and reign in still, warm water like ponds and lakes. Taxonomically speaking, there are 17 species of fish in the ...

GEARHART, Ore. — A massive, 2,000-pound fish washed up on the Oregon shore, but it was anything but an ordinary sunfish. A marine biologist realized the image of the fish carcass posted by Seaside ...

Seaside Aquarium thought a common sunfish had washed up on the Oregon coast last week and posted photos of its 2,000-pound carcass on social media. But a New Zealand-based marine biologist who saw the ...

An ocean sunfish was captured around one mile off Brighton Marina on June 19 by Kurt Lander of Yellowfin Charter Fishing ...