SPECIES LIST 38
Open Ocean

38. Ocean sunfish - Mola mola - Molas grow very large, reaching to 10 feet in depth and weighing as much as 600 pounds. They eat jellyfish. The young swim with the body in a vertical position like other fishes, but adults spend most of their time on their sides, floating as though dead.


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