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Category: Megavertebrate • TGIF: Pictures & Movies
Posted on: August 15, 2008 3:55 AM, by Kevin Zelnio
I came across these pictures from Fogonazos. Be sure to go over there for a great article about Mola Mola, the giant ocean sunfish, with about 2 dozen more pictures!
Now that's a whole lotta Mola! Read Fogonazos to see why you might not want to eat its flesh though.
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From the Fogonazos link, "Finally, the flesh of the ocean sunfish contains neurotoxins similar to those of other poisonous tetraodontiformes, but it is considered a delicacy by some people." Have we finally discovered the reason why -- as per the Fish Guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4smMyPNcA0) -- that they "taste like ass"?
Happy fish Fridays, folks.
Posted by: FishGuyDave | August 15, 2008 4:33 AM
I love one of the German names for the mola: schwimmender Kopf.
I wrote a post on my blog a couple of months ago, about a paper on the daily swimming patterns of mola; there's also a bit about the phylogeny of Molidae.
Posted by: Barn Owl | August 15, 2008 5:32 AM
Link!
Posted by: kevin z | August 15, 2008 7:27 AM
Woo. Have you guys seen this picture of a huge manta ray being trawled and someone is riding it like they were from fantasy story
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/08/12/trawling-for-giants/
Posted by: Matt | August 15, 2008 11:40 AM
Ooops!
my mola post
Posted by: Barn Owl | August 15, 2008 3:41 PM
When it comes to molas, I look to Tierney Thys. She has this great site at Oceansunfish.org, and has a tracking project going on. I still haven't found any mola mola in Minnesota, but I will call her as soon as I see one.
As far as their body style, I would say that they are the AMC Gremlin of the ocean.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich, FCD | August 15, 2008 8:41 PM
thats abig fish! You read about the sizes in books, but its not until you see photo with a human for scale you see HOW big
Posted by: Neil | August 21, 2008 2:50 PM