A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, has been discovered washed up dead on an Oregon beach, the Seaside Aquarium reported. The ...

A large ocean sunfish, measuring over six feet long, recently washed ashore on the Oregon Coast, according to the Seaside ...

One of last summer’s strandings — a 7-foot-3-inch fish in Gearhart — proved to be a rare hoodwinker sunfish, Mola tecta. New ...

A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, has been discovered washed up dead on an Oregon beach, the Seaside Aquarium reported. The “monstrous” fish, measuring about 6 ½ feet long, was found near Sunset ...

The Seaside Aquarium identified it as a longnose lancetfish. A deep-sea fish with an unusual appearance recently washed ashore on an Oregon beach, surprising a local aquarium.

A mola mola, or ocean sunfish, has been discovered washed up dead on an Oregon beach, the Seaside Aquarium reported. The “monstrous” fish, measuring about 6 ½ feet long, was found near Sunset ...

According to the Seaside Aquarium, a longnose lancetfish (Alepisaurus ferox) was found on Tuesday. “This is one fish you would not expect to run across along the Oregon coast,” according ...

Experts at the Seaside Aquarium identified the fish as a Longnose Lancetfish. It slightly resembles a Barracuda, and this is one fish you would not expect to stumble upon during your Oregon beach ...

So, of course, the Seaside Aquarium fish nerds had to see what was in this latest lancetfish's stomach. They posted the results on their Facebook page.

(Credit: Seaside Aquarium/Tiffany Boothe) In fact, a dissection of the longnose lancetfish’s stomach contents found nearly whole fish, along with partially digested cephalopods and even some beaks.

The Seaside Aquarium in Seaside, Oregon, published pictures of the dead fish in an April 23 Facebook post. Experts identified the fish as a longnose lancetfish.

Photo Courtesy of the Seaside Aquarium Lancetfish typically hunt in the ocean’s mesopelagic zone—known as the twilight zone—anywhere from 656 to 3,280 feet below the surface, alongside ...