Massive, very rare sunfish washes ashore at NC coast; huge fish preserved for museum display

Massive, very rare sunfish washes ashore at NC coast; huge fish preserved for museum display

Source: cbs17

12/2/2022

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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