🌊🐠 The massive mola mola, also known as a sunfish, holds the title of the world's largest bony fish! The heaviest recorded mola mola tipped the scales at an incredible 5,070 lbs (2,300 kg). 😲 These ocean giants can produce up to 300 million eggs at once—more than any other vertebrate—and they spawn multiple times throughout their lives. 🐟🌟
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The Bump-head Sunfush (Mola alexandrini) is the heaviest bony fish in the world.
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Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2023-02-species-ancient-bony-fish-south.html
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New species of ancient #bonyfish discovered in #SouthAfrica @PLOSONE https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article https://phys.org/news/2023-02-species-ancient-bony-fish-south.html
A pair of paleontologists, one with Rhodes University's Albany Museum and Geology Department, the other with Uppsala University, has identified a new species of tristichopterid, which is an ancient bony fish. Robert Gess and Per Ahlberg have analyzed the fossil specimen found in South Africa and published their research in PLOS ONE.
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