While researching a story related to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, I stumbled across an Instagram page featuring recent posts involving massive alien-like sea creatures known as Mola molas. The accompanying ...

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Since 2000, Thys and her colleagues have been traveling the world's oceans studying the giant ocean sunfish (mola). Though these fish can grow more than ten feet (three meters) long and weigh over ...

A giant sunfish that washed up on Western ... It just really stuck out how bizarre and weird it looked." Sunfish, or mola, are large, round-bodied fish that can weigh thousands of kilograms.

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