A Big, Weird, Pancake-Shaped Fish Keeps Surprising Beachgoers
The mola is a 5,000-pound bag of secrets.
by Rachel Gutman
Mar 21, 2019
3 minutes
When an ocean sunfish washed ashore in Australia a few days ago, the people who found it couldn’t help but gawk. The ocean sunfish is fundamentally bizarre, and the weirdest thing about it isn’t the teeth in its throat. It isn’t the way it plays dead on the ocean surface. It isn’t even the way its googly eyes make it perpetually look as if it’s just realized it left the stove on at home.
The strangest
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