This dead monstrosity is the heaviest bony fish in the world

This dead monstrosity is the heaviest bony fish in the world

Source: boingboing

10/19/2022

Credit: atlanticnaturalist.org

This monstrous animal, a giant sunfish, was found floating dead in the Portugal's Azores archipelago. Weighing 2,744 kilograms (3 tons), it's thought to be the world's heaviest bony fish ever seen. It's 400 kilograms (882 pounds) bigger than the prior record holder.

José Nuno Gomes-Pereira, lead author of the paper and postdoctoral researcher from the Atlantic Naturalist Association, told CNN Tuesday that it was saddening "to see the animal in this situation as it must have been a king of open ocean."

The "tremendously big" sunfish has been buried in the Natural Park of Faial Island, he added.

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