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 Beach, ...

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

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The crew at the Seaside Aquarium report a third sunfish (Mola mola) has washed ashore in Clatsop County along the north Oregon coast. “This Mola mola washed ashore at Hug Point State Park Sept ...

The most recent sunfish at Hug Point was 6.9 feet long, which is average size for the area, however, they can get up to 10 feet long and weigh up to 5,000 pounds, according to the aquarium crew.

Two were ocean sunfish and the other one was a hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), according to the aquarium. “It is not unusual for these guys to wash ashore as they do reside off the Oregon coast,” the ...

A 7-foot-long ocean sunfish, also known as a Mola mola, recently wash up on a beach at Hug Point State Park in Oregon. The decaying fish had been dead "for quite some time," experts say.