Alien-like sea creature stuns surfers, washes ashore in San Diego
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Key Points:
- A rare Mola mola, also known as an ocean sunfish, surfaced along the San Diego coastline before dying and washing ashore at Cardiff State Beach.
- The Mola mola is the heaviest bony fish on earth, capable of weighing over 2,000 pounds, and primarily feeds on jellyfish while often sunbathing on the ocean surface.
- Surfers and beachgoers observed the fish floating near the shore, with some initially mistaking its flopping dorsal fin for a shark fin.
- Mola molas are unusual-looking, large, flat fish typically found in deep offshore waters, with Monterey Bay Aquarium noting they can weigh up to 5,000 pounds.
- These ocean sunfish are the
