Monday, 17 October 2022

Giant bony fish discovered

 



Image courtesy of AtlanticNaturalist.org

Joel Kontinen

 

God made them all, Including a southern sunfish (Mola alexandrini) that weights  at 2744 kilograms. The fish, founded by José Nuno Gomes-Pereira at the Atlantic Naturalist Association in Portugal and his colleagues off the coast of Faial Island in the Azores.

 

While the fish is not the biggest one, for example the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) which can weigh more than 20 tonnes. 

 Source:  

Wilkins, Alex, 2022. World's heaviest bony fish weighs in at a whopping 2744 kilograms New Scientist 14 October.