This is a giant sunfish that can be found all over the world, but their exact number is unknown.
A huge fish weighing three tons was caught in the Azores. This is the heaviest fish bone ever recorded.
The fish was found dead on the surface of the ocean.
The scaly hippo, known as the giant sunfish or cone-headed sunfish (Mola alexandrini), was discovered on December 9, 2021, while swimming lifeless off the coast of Faial Island in the Azores, a Portuguese group of islands in the northern Ocean Atlantic ..
According to a statement from the Atlantic Naturalist Association, a non-profit conservation and research organization based on Faial Island, local authorities retrieved the heavy carcass and brought it back to port so it could be properly examined.
The fish is about 3.6 m high and about 3.5 m long, and its weight is 2744 kg.
Recall that in the summer of this year, fishermen from the Chilean city of Arica caught a 5-meter oar king from the water. This fish is called a harbinger of disasters – earthquakes and tsunamis.
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