The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is the world's largest known bony fish (sharks and rays are cartilaginous, not bony).The mola are the heaviest of all the bony fish, with large specimens reaching 14 feet vertically and 10 feet horizontally and weighing nearly 5,000 pounds. Sunfish live on a diet consisting mainly of jellyfish, but because this diet is nutritionally poor, who consume large amounts to develop and maintain their body bulk. Females can produce as many as 300 million eggs at a time, more than any other known vertebrate.
4 comments:
at: June 20, 2011 at 3:03 AM said...
A new discovery for me altogether..after all I am visiting the living National Geographical site on FB..
at: June 20, 2011 at 6:27 PM said...
seems you are doing a series on fish....
thnx for sharing.....:))
at: June 21, 2011 at 7:08 AM said...
mola mola have some hajmola:))
at: June 26, 2011 at 8:45 PM said...
The ocean sunfish discovered an even greater journey to Mars.
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