The mammoth sunfish, approximately around 3.2 meters long, 2.9 meters wide, was found off the coast of Ceuta
The mammoth sunfish, a species classed as vulnerable and not eaten in Europe, was 3.2 metres long, 2.9 metres wide, Enrique Ostale said in an interview on Thursday. The find, which he was called to assess, was a record for the area which, due to tides and sunfish migratory patterns, has no shortage of such encounters.
With dark grey skin, rounded grooves in its flanks and a large, prehistoric-looking head, this particular specimen was likely a mola alexandrini, one sub-species of the mola sunfish genus, which sports a distinctively stub, scalloped back fin.
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