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Massive, very rare sunfish washes ashore at NC coast; huge fish preserved for museum display 
By Rodney Overton US Source: cbs17 12/2/2022
Rodney Overton
Credit: Matt Zeher / DNCR
A massive, rare sunfish washed ashore on the North Carolina coast this week.

The 450-pound fish is more than 6 feet long and washed ashore on North Topsail Beach near the Seaview Pier on Wednesday, according to officials with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
 

The fish is called a sharptail mola sunfish — one of just five species of sunfish in the world.

The fish was almost fully intact, which is quite rare for a sharptail mola sunfish, officials said.

 
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