Ocean sunfish are weird. One scientist who specializes in the fish described them as “looking like a mistake.” They are the heaviest bony fish in the ocean, weighing between 545–2,205 lb.
They look like a flattened silver disk. In English, they are called sunfish because they can often be found near the surface apparently sunbathing. Their Latin name is mola, meaning millstone for their heavy disk-like shape. They are also called moon-fish for the same reason. In German, they are called Schwimmender Kopf, or “swimming head” as some think they look like a fish head with fins.
Lacking a true tail, they swim by waving their ventral and dorsal fins. With their fins extended, they are frequently as tall as they are long. They also have no swim bladder to control buoyancy so they often float near the surface. Their dorsal fin protruding from the water can be mistaken for a shark fin.
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Recently, two kayakers off California inadvertently got between a lunge feeding humpback whale and its lunch. Videos of the encounter show the whale surfacing between the yellow kayak, almost appearing to swallow the kayakers and their boat. Fortunately, neither the two kayakers nor the whale appears to have been injured.
In July 2017, 
A commuter train car careened off the end of elevated train tracks yesterday near Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It was saved from plunging more than 30 feet to the ground when it landed on the sculpture of a whale’s tail. It was indeed a fluke.
The fishermen knew. They told stories of swordfish using their eponymous swords to stab sharks and other large fish and mammals. Scientists, however, were skeptical. Recently, however, more than six dead sharks have washed up around the Mediterranean, all apparently stabbed, usually in the head, by swordfish.
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Back in 2013, we posted about a 
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The story of the New York Marine Hospital in Staten Island—known simply as “the Quarantine,” seems very timely. It was the firey center of what became known as the 
The pandemic has taken a toll on even those of us who remained untouched by the virus. In a trivial example, for me, it was a haircut. After five months without a haircut, I was feeling very shaggy when the barbershops finally reopened.