"how else could it get so stupidly big? Even it seems surprise at it's continuous existence" "maybe it is somehow breaking the rules of nature, rules which are supposed to select for animals that actually function." 😂😂😂
Fun fact: mola fishes are known in Spanish as 'peces luna', so 'moonfishes' while in English are 'sunfishes'. I guess the Spanish name is related to the shape and color while the English name has more to do with their 'sunbathing' habit.
How on earth can you speak of millions of years without having any real evidence. Even some evolutionists don’t agree with timelines. These fanciful stories are really needing a lot of faith to believe ……
@@TrishWraggSo if you didn’t see it, it didn’t happen, and also, the devil might be causing your eyes to lie to you? Yes, I see now, that’s MUCH more believable… 🙃🙃🙃
You lured me in by roasting the ever loving shit out of the sunfish at the beginning, but by the end of the video they became one of my favorite fish. I'm absolutely fascinated by developmental biology, and the idea that the largest extant bony fish starts its life as a tiny spiky ball smaller than a fingernail is so incredible.
I saw one of these bad boys years ago on a fishing trip in the pacific. I had no idea what I was seeing. it looked like a giant rubber mattress with fins. The captain pointed out that it was a sunfish. It was amazing, the thing was an absolute unit of a fish!
Reminds me of this terrible story of a deep diver. Malfunctions ensue, he can't use his own breathing equipment, buddy gives him the emergency one, but his first breath goes to his stomach. On the way up he does realize that and tries to burp the expanding gas, but can't. When he reaches the surface, the gas is so dilated his stomach EXPLODES. He does end up surviving though - don't remember if he quit after that, but I doubt it because 99% of professional divers simply do not quit.
@aubreywhaley7729 Maybe to u it did but Bro always meant either brother or good friend it NEVER meant a Black Man but Brotha or a Brothaman did mean Black Men back then!
Back in the 1970s somebody fishing off of Florida hooked one and the thing hit the old wooden charter boat with enough speed to stove in a plank, and it started sinking. The coast guard had to come rescue everybody.
@@TheGoldenDunsparcenahhhhh It has insane hp and resistance to everything Didn't you see the one just going about its business with a quarter of its body just bitten off?
I remember being on a cruise ship as a kid when I looked down as the ship passed by a massive sunfish that was basking at the surface. I felt so lucky that I saw it, I will never forget it!
I remember seeing an artist's rendering of a sunfish in a book when I was a little boy and I wondered then if I would ever see such a fascinating creature. Twenty-five years later or so, in 1991, my brother-in-law and I encountered one while deep sea fishing off the coast of Georgia. It is truly one of the most amazing things I've have ever seen on the ocean. I will never forget it
They're interesting to see even in aquariums. During one visit, I was looking at "ordinary" fish when a sunfish slowly emerged from the shadows, swam by the viewing window, then receded back into the darkness. It absolutely dwarfed all the other fish in size. Seeing one of these fish is truly memorable.
I love this dude, just a weird and fascinating species. Looks completely stupid yet clearly is doing something right. (And so many eggs, my god. Insane!) Love to see these oddballs doing something well.
most of the weirdest looking animals are the ones that are the most adapted for their environment and do better than everything else in its environment
Wow, I love marine biology and learning about the oceans. But I'll be honest and say I did always think the Mola Mola was some weird prehistoric leftover. But the fact that they are so unique and actually one of the most recent evolutionary path in the fish family is fascinating! You've really changed my mind about this fish.
“I dare you to eat all these eggs” really cracked me up. I love the humour in the narration and it reminds me how many wondrous adaptations there really are.
I saw the text on the thumbnail and was ready to come in yelling "fight me!" I adore the Sunfish/Mola Mola! It's so unique, gentle and fascinating in my fish-nerd eyes. In the end, you did a good job describing a lot of the things I love about it. Thank you for the video!
My grandfather saw one in the 1960s with his friends. The 3 of them were cruising on their sailboat, close to Madeira they were becalmed and my grand father went for a swim, after only a few minutes his two friends on the sailboat started screaming that there was a huge, giant, dorsal fin poking out of the water, my grand father had the fear of his life: he started swimming like crazy for the boat to climb back aboard. The Med is known for white sharks, particularly back then and for huge white sharks that would often get out of the med and swim close to Madeira where they’d attack blue fin Tuna going for the strait of Gibraltar and the Med from the Atlantic. After getting on board a moment passed, and then the fin got closer, that’s when they saw it was a huge mola mola, and stopped being so tense. My grandfather told me it was the one and only time he so suddenly felt for his life.
I used to be a commercial fisherman in NE. We caught one of these once. It was massive! Took six men on a wet slimy deck to get it back off. It's eye was as large as my entire outstretched hand. Beautiful amazing creatures. We got it back in the water unharmed.
Reminds me of when Zefrank was talking about jewelers that use cuttlebones to mold jewelry and says "These people are called cuttleboners. By me. And now by you." Gets me every time.
I had the pleasure of seeing one of these funny fish in the wild!! Two years ago I was surfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on a sunny day around spring and I had paddled out just past the break. I look over in the water and spot a weird white object, but upon inspection it was one of these! It was roughly 1 meter long and was on its side at the surface 2 feet away from me. We hung out for about 5 minutes and it didn’t mind me at all. The whole time it was on its side gently flapping its wings and splashing the surface, but not actually moving anywhere. I tried to stay with it to marvel at it for as long as possible, but eventually a wave came and when I emerged from the duck dive it was gone😢. 10/10 would hang with a Mola mola again!
My husband and I were fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico when an ocean sunfish surfaced maybe 25 yards from us. He rolled back and forth while looking us over in a curious fashion. It hung out like this for maybe 10 minutes and then disappeared under the water. A very curious creature.
I remember my first time ever seeing one. I was roughly 7 years old and my dad took us to an aquarium and everything was great until we reached this dark area. When we walked into that area I came across a big window for a massive tank with no other windows on the walls at the far end and I couldn't see a "top" where the surface of the water would be. Just a big cavity completely filled with water. It was dark but lit just enough that you could see everything inside, but there was only 1 single entitiy in the entire tank. A massive Sunfish just looming through the dim blue tank all by itself just floating around as if life had no meaning. I don't know why, but it terrified me. It wasn't the fish itself, but something about the scene as a whole shook me to my core and I forgot literally everything about that trip except for that room...
Was it like seeing something that should be dead swimming around like it had life? Did it look alien to what you expected fish to be? Did it surprise you so much you were shocked? I'm just trying to comprehend how psychologically that occurs for someone, I'm curious
Sounds like it seemed depressing/depressed, what humans did to this magnificent creature, all alone in a prison. Also maybe a fear of what happens if such an oppressed creature breaks loose. I felt the same about a bison inside a giant stable at a zoo. I was so tiny and it was huge. Almost like being alone with it in the wild
@@lorinbridges6699 Sorry for the insanely late reply. I just now got notified that this thread still exists 😅 To answer your question, I didn't expect anything. I was a 7 year old kid wandering around an aquarium I didn't ask to go to but was still curious to explore. I just kind of walked into this situation all of a sudden and the responses to it just happened on their own. The amount of clashing contrasts in my mind was just overwhelming. Contrast between that empty void of a place and the busy bustling energy of the rest of the world. It was like knowing there was a whole universe out there, but feeling like none of it mattered down here. You could be keenly aware of it all or totally ignorant and it wouldn't matter either way. I sensed that the fish was being fed and kept alive, but couldn't see how anyone or anything could get into or out of that dark topless underground chamber. And yet there it was, a massive living entity floating purposelessly in a cavern both lit yet dark. It seemed meaningless, yet I know it was put there on purpose, in much the same way those who believe in god feel they are here for a reason but still feel lost, isolated, and inconsequential. The colossal size of the tank but the fact that it was still a tank gave a sense of both boundless space and limiting entrapment. Like it's here to be seen, but it doesn't really matter if it actually is. Possibly looking a bit too deep into it now as an adult, it feels like being told wordlessly that knowledge, purpose, right/wrong, and even life itself isn't necessary to this universe. It's nice to have, but none of it NEEDS to be here. There was a time before it and that was fine. We Live in a time that has it, and that's fine. There may be a time after it, and that's fine too. The universe is fine, just like this isolated, underground, meaningless, forgotten, trapped fish is, despite it all, doing just fine 😅
11:12 Absolutely the most poignant and effective use of the scientific term "fart" ever recorded in modern videography. Thumbs, subs and all bells. You've made my week. Thank you.
Not true. The sunfish is very very edible. Always remember that food is where you live. Cate Food Travel - Harvesting Sunfish ruclips.net/video/uys3w_fJygM/видео.html
I watched a video of some asain people chopping one of these things for food and all i could think is that thing is nothing but gelatinous goo and cartilage nothing looked even remotely edible
LMAO that intro tho. For a while during that first 2 minutes, I was like "What is this? The Friar's Club Roast of the Sunfish?!". She was straight verbally massacring that fish. Talking about "its stupid looking deformed body" and "its weird flopping around at the surface behaviors" 😂. I half expected Jeff Ross to come out and tell her to go easy on it lol. This video ended up being very informative though, and I actually learned a lot about a fish I've always been really fascinated by. I fully support this new format of educational animal videos, where the first part is just roasting the hell out of the animal before then proceeding to educate about all of its fascinating biology. This was great. Both entertaining and informative
I saw one of these sunfish in Hawaii Scuba diving at age 13 in 1977. I fed it airline biscuits you get on the plane. It took the biscuits squeezed out of the plastic packet from my hand, something I have never forgotten. Definetly a gentle oddball creature.
"Its a sea turtle!? ..No its a baby whale!!" 😂 Oh man that was hilarious! For me this sea unicorn is one of life's mot amazing creatures!😉Great video thx!
Yo I'm dumb but I thought he was saying "it's a baby wheel!" The wonder and delight in his voice while speaking about a baby wheel being born was hilarious to me 😂
In their defense, we don't really see them much up here (I know exactly where they're from, because that's how we all talk in our area lol). I'm assuming our water might be a little too cold for most of them
Very educational and I like your candor! My 14 year old daughter encountered one at the beach on Long Island NY. The top fin splashed right next to her and the body brushed her friend. It spooked the heck out of them. The lifeguard told them they're harmless and they come to eat the jellyfish. It took a few years until she went back into the ocean after that.
I got energy from the sun by eating a cheeseburger made from a cow that ate grass that photosynthesised photons from the sun. Wait, what if basically all life on Earth gets all its energy from the sun because like entropy and thermodynamics!?! 🤯
There is another reason sunfish bask near the surface and that's the parasites they accumulate. Because they' have no scales, only a mucus covered skin, it's much easier for parasites to latch on and some may even affect drag. So they float sideways at the surface and allow seabirds to pick at the parasites. The sunfish gets a bit of a cleanse and the birds get a free meal. Some fish hang around molas for the same reason, with the mola's size potentially protecting the smaller fish from their own predators. What I don't get though is how they are able to survive having huge chunks bitten out of them and they carry on as if it were a minor inconvenience at best. These things might seem like evolutionary accidents, but the fact that they have survived for as long as they have means that they've clearly done something right down the line.
When you have a lot of parasites, unless the thing likes to eat parasites it tends to stay away, so prominent predators will learn real quickly to avoid sunfish if they want to feel good
So, if you are a sunfish, you won the lottery. When any creature lays that many eggs, the odds of being born at all is astronomical. You ARE that one in a billion.
This fish gave me a really great fish story . I had been fishing off a jetty . But was not catching anything . Was walking down the beach with my wife and found a big dead ocean sunfish on the sand . It was over 4 feet long . I felt bad for it . But it was dead . So I put my little hook in its mouth . Let out some line . And had my wife take my picture like I had caught it . At work I was telling the people I worked with . I caught a giant ocean sunfish . I was only using 20 pound test line . And it took me over 5 hours to bring it in . They said sure you did . That's a good one . I said here is a picture . They then got all excited saying wow thought you were joking that's unbelievable that thing huge . By the time my dày was done I had people coming to me saying I heard you caught a ocean sunfish on 20 pound test line . Can I see the picture . Wow unbelievable . Yes it was unbelievable . Because I really did not catch it . If that sunfish had been alive . I would have done my best to get it back in the water . And would not had given up till I did .
@@Goremachine ok thanks for the correction. I had a similar comment about where I had put my periods. Only that person asked me . Why are you putting a period before each start of a sentence. As you can obviously tell. My writing skills are severally lacking. But I only write comments in the hopes somebody will get a smile out of it. And not go all teacher on me. But in this case it's not a big deal. Losing a limb is a big deal. I am 66 and can remember all the red ink a teacher would put on a test they gave me back. I should have looked at what the problem was. Instead of looking at that red ink. 😊
@@diomarim7322 this is why I told them it took me 5 hours to bring the fish in. So I wouldn't snap my line. Just very slowly play the fish till it got so tired. I could real it to shore . I had fun with my coworkers. I had gotten divorced . But am a private person. I did not go around work bad mouthing my wife. It was not some drawn out divorce. And not a big deal to either one of us. But one day for fun. I told a coworker. I cannot believe my x wife. He says I did not even know you were married. I said yes it just did not work out. But that she had sent me a picture of babies she had. Because I never wanted children. I said look at this picture. It was a picture of a mother pig feeding her babies. He said I should have known better believing anything you say. Life has no guarantees we will live even till tomorrow. Things happen. So for me. I do my best to not freakout over every little thing. I get a bad day. I do not dwell on it. I just get over it and do my best to just forget about it. So I do not lose night sleep out of it. Things when I was much younger would drive me so full of anxiety. I was like a over tightened spring. Just ready to let go. But over time realized all kinds of things happen to everyone. And getting all pissed off over it. Does not help the situation. Just figure things out and move on. The past is done.
I was snorkeling off the coast of Cozumel when I saw my first sunfish...two, in fact. We were about a half mile offshore, so I'll admit I was pretty spooked just because they were so massive. Finally, all these years of watching nature documentaries paid off when I realized what they were and could just relax and watch.
I spent most weekends of my childhood on my parents' game fishing boat off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and we'd fairly often see huge examples of these. My dad would tell me they were sunbathing.
Yeah my uncle was fishing one time (im in Portugal) and saw a big lump so he shot it with his harpoon and fished it. we dont have these fish here. we were shocked when we found out where it was from. we made lots of amazing dishes while it lasted tho. was never a big fish fan but i never forgot the taste of that one haha
@@michaelkrynski7793 it just looks gross. lot of actual meat in them. i have a fish phobia so i wouldnt eat it if they told me it was this monstruosity before. but filleted on a plate is amazing haha
Your dad was right 😊 sunbathing is one of their favorite pasttimes!! Sometimes their seagull friends will clean parasites off their bodies while they're at the surface, which does the sunfish a huge favor considering they can have over 40 different variants of parasites living on them at a given time.
As always, amazing coverage on this topic! I also loved the humor and the fact that you included the infamous Boston Sunfish clip 😂 “That’s a tuna, bro!” (2 seconds later) “What IS that thing, Jay?”
I've seen a few of them. Most recently was 2017 9 miles off the coast of St Augustine, FL. I was out solo on my 21' boat fishing for red snapper and cobia. I was in the middle of tying rigs and one floated right up next to the boat. I was actually startled for a minute but then I realized what it was and got some good photos and video of it. Cool creature, never know what you'll see out there!!
Caught off guard by the unexpected Ricky Gervais-style roast at the beginning! The sunfish didn't just swim into the deep end, it swam into a comedy central roast session. Educational and entertaining! I'm subbing to the channel immediately.
You relate to this fish? How? Are you and enormous disc-shaped creature, unable to close your mouth, and swim to improbably depths to eat gelatinous phytoplankton on a regular basis?
@@Ripcraze Aha! But they DON'T breathe through their mouths, they breathe through their gills while keeping their mouths open! I'm screwing around of course.
I remember I had some little scuba diving game for the Wii called Endless Ocean that I played all the time as a kid. There was an option you could eventually unlock where you could go on night dives and I found a sunfish and I was absolutely terrified. I had no clue what it was, I thought it was some kind of floating shark head
Oh my gosh, I think I played this game when I was quite young and I've been trying to remember what it was called for years!! I loved the game, but I was so terrified of this one part where you had to swim past a tiger shark that it scared me from playing it ever again 😅
Seeing one of these at the Monterey Bay Aquarium while on vacation as a child was simply mind blowing. I had seen them plenty of times on video, but their size was simply breathtaking. Thanks for the awesome content, this one lit up a bunch of ancient memories and taught me a good number of new things about a simply stunning flat af fishy friend.
I did a research project for Marine Biology in high school about the Mola Mola because I always thought it was the most unique looking fish and really wanted to find out why it looked like this
@@CordeliaWagnerThe same reason why we eat pigs and not dogs (at least in most cultures), plus if you watched the video, sunfishes are big and heavy with thick skin, I don't think one guy can deal with a 2 ton fish
I had no idea the sunfish was so incredible! Thank you so much for making this video and other great educational content. "The Insane Biology of: " series has got to some of my favorite content of all time! Absolutely fascinating stuff!!
I did not expect the baby Sunfish to be so damn cuuuute. This animal have always fascinated me and never even for one second considered it weird-looking, always thought they looked cool.
My first exposure to the ocean sunfish was Kine from Kirby's Dream Land 2. I thought it was a fictional fish species from the Kirby universe back then. I was really surprised when I found out that this oddly proportioned fish was real a few years later. It's a fascinating creature.
I saw a sunfish (Mola mola) while boating in Hawaii in 2005. It was floating on its side. I thought it was dead at first, but when the boat got too close, it righted itself, sank, and swam slowly away. Weird looking fish to be sure. (Jan Griffiths).
Within the first two minutes, I was prepared to bust out my 8 page essay defense of sunfish, as they are my favorite animal ever, and encountering this sort of sunfish hate is extremely common. However, I am so pleased with the outcome!! Sunfish have long deserved some love, and if they did not exist, our ecosystem would be in shambles. My lifelong passion has been to protect these creatures ❤ thank you for bringing recognition to this beautiful fish!! (I am always dying to talk about these guys so if you want more cool sunfish facts you are more than welcome to let me know)
@Badger3 im so glad you asked!! sunfishies favorite snack are jellyfish :) considering global warming, many "dead zones" (or zones that don't grow much life besides plankton and other microorganisms) have become overrun with jellyfish, a creature that survives off of eating microorganisms and can thus survive in dead zones. Now you can see where sunfish come in :D they tame the jellyfish population! Without them, jellyfish could overrun these dead zones (and just multiply and multiply like crazy, they can be very dangerous too).
@plootyluvsturtle9843 a sunfish fact for you as well :D when sunfish are born, they have a working jaw and a row of top and bottom teeth. As mentioned in the video, they also have a tail fin when born. However, as they grow, not only does their tail grow back in on itself, but it's skin/muscles/jaw solidifies so much and their teeth just about disappear that they can no longer open and close their mouth. Which doesn't matter much for them, considering they just like to slurp up some jellyfish! I'm so happy you wanted to know more about sunfishies!!
I want some sunfish facts too!! As a kid I saw a sunfish in an aquarium and I'm pretty sure that fish still will be the weirdest creature I had ever seen. I also thought they were the coolest fish ever when I was like 8 or something.
like so many other topic that you've covered, this is a video about something that I've wondered but never learned about, so thank you again Stephanie for teaching me about another unique animal!
I do the same thing for what you do on ground news, the words used often show the leanings of the reporting entity, which i find fascinating and useful
i'm privileged to have grown up in the same county as the esteemed monterey bay aquarium and research institute, so when i was a child my elementary school had regular trips to the aquarium. the pacific sunfish they have in their open ocean tank were my favorite fish form the moment i saw them. something about their specimen was just enchanting to me
I went on a whale watching tour and we didn’t see anything but this fish. The guide got super excited seeing one while everyone on the boat could not care less lol.
@gavinlew8273 no refund but you got half off the next trip if you wanted to see another whale tour and they are pretty upfront you may not see a whale. It was just funny. Plus, they can't really tell the whales where to be haha
@@gavinlew8273idk, but going on a sightseeing _in nature_ and not seeing anything and then *expecting a refund* seems so fking ignorant and entitled to me. If you want whimsical entertainment as a package deal, go to bloody Disneyland. Nature doesn't give a sh!t about our wants and desires, nor should it.
Talking about looking goofy to be underestimated reminded me of my father, who was a legitimate genius in some ways, especially his work as a psychologist, but part of his method was choosing to appear kind of spaced out & goofy at the start, both in his career & in his personal life.
I can remember my father coming across a sunfish when fishing, must be 45 years ago. He definitely didn't bring it home lol but he was pretty excited about seeing it.
Fishing for Albacore 60 miles off the coast of Santa Cruz, Ca.on a friends commercial boat for the first time in the 70's, we came across one of these basking in the sun only a few yards from the boat. He was just laying on its side on top flapping his fins and looking at us with that great big eye. This was my first time seeing one. I feel very lucky that I got to see such a beautiful, and gentle giant of the sea!
I managed to see 3 of these swimming together whilst snorkeling off of Fitzroy island in Queensland Australia. It was absolutely nuts, seeing the sheer size of them cruise past parallel and surprisingly quick
The ocean sunfish is one of the best animals in existence and nothing can change my mind. It looks like a drawing made by a three year old. I’m obsessed with it.
My Father and I used to troll past these in Monterrey Bay. Over the years I saw several of them, afloat near the surface and that huge eye staring up at me. I was age 10 and it was before the internet, so I went to the library to find a detailed reference, because I couldn't get their image out of my mind. I remember at first site, I really thought i'd seen a huge, injured half-fish, probably cut by a vessel's prop. That big eye looking at me in desperation before it's helplessly eaten by sharks. But so many fishing trips and I kept seeing them occasionally. So I realized them among the incredible mysteries of the Monterrey.
I remember going on a field trip to Lisbon, in which we went to the oceanarium. I was sort of staring at all the fish including the sharks. I also had seen this one a bit far away. Suddenly, as I was distracted watching every fish I could, this things pops out in front of me and starts turning really slowly, facing us. For a few seconds it stared into my eyes. I never felt so much dread in such short time and I know this thing is harmless. Funny how such a random moment makes you remember one of these weirdo animals.
Sunfish are my favorite fish. I sit in front of the Montery Aquarium tank and watch them. Well, they have only one. They need to release them every so often because they grow too large for the tank. And it's a big tank!
“How does such an awkward, slow moving thing become so massive?” I ask myself the same question every day
The idea of deep-sea gigantism, I think.
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😂 Me too!!!! 😅🤣😂
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Lol she spent the first 2 min absolutely destroying this fish before explaining the insanity behind its biology
That's usually how it goes for this poor fish lol😅
Poor animal
The fact that she was still using her professional tone makes it even more hilarious
If that fish could read it would be very upset
"how else could it get so stupidly big? Even it seems surprise at it's continuous existence"
"maybe it is somehow breaking the rules of nature, rules which are supposed to select for animals that actually function."
😂😂😂
Fun fact: mola fishes are known in Spanish as 'peces luna', so 'moonfishes' while in English are 'sunfishes'.
I guess the Spanish name is related to the shape and color while the English name has more to do with their 'sunbathing' habit.
The german name for it also means moon fish
well, it's DEFINITELY mooning everyone with its curvy bottom!
It looks like the man in the moon or looks like it could have been made from the moon.
in polish its called "just a head" BFBBZHFNF
@@periwinkleqiaobest😂😂😂😂
This fish is so weird that the class bully is afraid of him and leaves him alone. Peak evolution.
if only this worked for us people😔 (being human is NOT fun yall)
edit: non-limited to autism, oops
@@PastaV4 You can also be just weird enough that you creep them, even bad people, out. You just have to know where to hit with the weird.
@@PastaV4Maybe if you didn't write pathetic shit like this they wouldn't bully you...
The first two minutes of this documentary are single-handedly the most brutal and crispy roast I have ever witnessed.
Mmmmmm, roasted sunfish!
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How on earth can you speak of millions of years without having any real evidence. Even some evolutionists don’t agree with timelines. These fanciful stories are really needing a lot of faith to believe ……
@@deanevangelista6359that’s what Michael Scott said *laughs in Stanley*
@@TrishWraggSo if you didn’t see it, it didn’t happen, and also, the devil might be causing your eyes to lie to you? Yes, I see now, that’s MUCH more believable… 🙃🙃🙃
You lured me in by roasting the ever loving shit out of the sunfish at the beginning, but by the end of the video they became one of my favorite fish. I'm absolutely fascinated by developmental biology, and the idea that the largest extant bony fish starts its life as a tiny spiky ball smaller than a fingernail is so incredible.
The guy that thought it was a baby whale is the kind of moment that reminds me of the double rainbow all the way across the sky
IKR LOL
"lured" you in.. I see what you did there ;)
Yeah. I like roasted sunfish as well. 😋
Never mistake curiosity for fascination
I saw one of these bad boys years ago on a fishing trip in the pacific. I had no idea what I was seeing. it looked like a giant rubber mattress with fins. The captain pointed out that it was a sunfish. It was amazing, the thing was an absolute unit of a fish!
Winged rubber sea mattress is a better name
A giant rubber mattress 💀💀💀 the comment section on this video is one of my favorite places now. Such unexpected belly laughs. 😂
Lol
Why am I imagining a water bed made out of a sunfish now?
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“Aggressively farting out the gas”. Too bad we don’t have any video footage of this heroic feat. 😂
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Reminds me of this terrible story of a deep diver. Malfunctions ensue, he can't use his own breathing equipment, buddy gives him the emergency one, but his first breath goes to his stomach. On the way up he does realize that and tries to burp the expanding gas, but can't. When he reaches the surface, the gas is so dilated his stomach EXPLODES.
He does end up surviving though - don't remember if he quit after that, but I doubt it because 99% of professional divers simply do not quit.
"Stupid-looking deformed body"
Bro did not have to go down that hard on the poor thing 😭
So Bro is Unisexed now, depicts male and female, lol. Bro back in my time meant Black Men
@@aubreywhaley7729 Great opinion, however, Bruthaman
@aubreywhaley7729 Maybe to u it did but Bro always meant either brother or good friend it NEVER meant a Black Man but Brotha or a Brothaman did mean Black Men back then!
@@Mr.Wilsin this is what I meant , still so when did women become bros and brotha as a norm is what I'm asking?
@@aubreywhaley7729 i'd say when black people were recognized as people, probably
I hope she never stops narrating this channel hahaha she completely bodied this fish in the most professional way 😂
There goes all her followers who were Ocean Sunfish 😅
there is nothing "professional" about the narration! quite the opposite...
@@gshaindrich found the mola mola
@@gshaindrichhave a sense of humour! :D she's just being silly
When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣
I like how the Mola Mola looks like the most "No thoughts, head empty" creature. But everything it does in life is in fact weird but very big brain.
Story of my life “ people are quick to jump to conclusions without understanding the whole picture
Same
Except for its actual brain
@@asiantom4935DAMN, stop roasting my precious lil boy😭😭
@@PastaV4 even you called it "lil"...
The craziest thing is seeing one of these jump like a dolphin. You wouldn't think it's possible, but I've seen it.
What can't the sun fish do
@desgildanphi8825 taste good? I haven't tried one, but it doesn't look nice.
@@raymondc9896"ferb, I know what we're gonna do today!"
Back in the 1970s somebody fishing off of Florida hooked one and the thing hit the old wooden charter boat with enough speed to stove in a plank, and it started sinking. The coast guard had to come rescue everybody.
There’s also at least one incident of a boat colliding into it and sinking, as well as one jumping out of the water and landing on a 4 year old child
"Being weird is the best way to exist on this earth" I like that quote.
It isn't working for me tho
@@Stierenkloot change your habitat then until you find fit :D
@@Stierenklootevolve into something weirder then
Nah. Stay normal
@@Stierenklootyou just havent found your ecological niche
Man those first 2 minutes were PERSONAL
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She's another Karen. All forgiven.
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lol 😂
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"It's a BABY WHALE!" took me all the way out 😂😂😂
I thought they said "its a baby *wheel* " 😭
Can't even get mad about how wrong bro got the fish with that accent.
@viktorbihar5384 lmaooooo that was my IMMEDIATE thought 😂😂😂
Bwahsten
Gahd I am from Boston kehd and that dude sounded like my cousint
This fish looks like a pokemon with high stats and every pro player is using it
Alomomola
@@sapphiresupernovaThunder + Leaf Storm
@@GudaGudaPaisen Lighting Shock + Vine Whip would kill this thing lol
@@TheGoldenDunsparcenahhhhh
It has insane hp and resistance to everything
Didn't you see the one just going about its business with a quarter of its body just bitten off?
@@worm2976 It took damage but didn't feel it cause it had Wonderguard
I remember being on a cruise ship as a kid when I looked down as the ship passed by a massive sunfish that was basking at the surface. I felt so lucky that I saw it, I will never forget it!
Was your first thought to break down the fish and leave it depressed.
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Were you traumatized?
@@jimmytran5971 no cap bro
That's amazing! To see one in person. Hope you were able to get photos!
I remember seeing an artist's rendering of a sunfish in a book when I was a little boy and I wondered then if I would ever see such a fascinating creature. Twenty-five years later or so, in 1991, my brother-in-law and I encountered one while deep sea fishing off the coast of Georgia. It is truly one of the most amazing things I've have ever seen on the ocean. I will never forget it
They're interesting to see even in aquariums. During one visit, I was looking at "ordinary" fish when a sunfish slowly emerged from the shadows, swam by the viewing window, then receded back into the darkness. It absolutely dwarfed all the other fish in size. Seeing one of these fish is truly memorable.
It’s so majestic the way they fly with their fin-wings
I love this dude, just a weird and fascinating species. Looks completely stupid yet clearly is doing something right. (And so many eggs, my god. Insane!) Love to see these oddballs doing something well.
most of the weirdest looking animals are the ones that are the most adapted for their environment and do better than everything else in its environment
I'm surprised it hasn't been bullied into extinction by orcas or some other kind of smart ass marine creature. I mean, it's so punchable 😂
Such a goofy fish, but also really cool at the same time. I have a new favorite fish, because normal things are boring.
Yeah she seems like a superficial and totally judgmental
Same 😂😆
Wow, I love marine biology and learning about the oceans. But I'll be honest and say I did always think the Mola Mola was some weird prehistoric leftover. But the fact that they are so unique and actually one of the most recent evolutionary path in the fish family is fascinating! You've really changed my mind about this fish.
“I dare you to eat all these eggs” really cracked me up. I love the humour in the narration and it reminds me how many wondrous adaptations there really are.
I saw the text on the thumbnail and was ready to come in yelling "fight me!" I adore the Sunfish/Mola Mola! It's so unique, gentle and fascinating in my fish-nerd eyes. In the end, you did a good job describing a lot of the things I love about it. Thank you for the video!
My grandfather saw one in the 1960s with his friends. The 3 of them were cruising on their sailboat, close to Madeira they were becalmed and my grand father went for a swim, after only a few minutes his two friends on the sailboat started screaming that there was a huge, giant, dorsal fin poking out of the water, my grand father had the fear of his life: he started swimming like crazy for the boat to climb back aboard. The Med is known for white sharks, particularly back then and for huge white sharks that would often get out of the med and swim close to Madeira where they’d attack blue fin Tuna going for the strait of Gibraltar and the Med from the Atlantic.
After getting on board a moment passed, and then the fin got closer, that’s when they saw it was a huge mola mola, and stopped being so tense.
My grandfather told me it was the one and only time he so suddenly felt for his life.
Nothing like seeing a shark when you're in the water to make you feel alive! 😁👍🏻
An apex predator to be sure, but just not the one they were expecting
felt for his life by sun fish
Bet he was relieved when he saw that derpy looking mother fucker instead of a shark.
This is so weird 😂
Liked how she said even hes surprised of his own existence. While shows a shot of it floating around with a blank stare
"How does such an awkward, slow-moving thing become so massive?"
I feel personally attacked.
Bro he’s just a fish stop bullying him 😂
Fish mobbing is a real problem
Oml not his fault his spine folded in 😂
Stop! Stop! He's already [Fish]!
When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣
@@MAGGOT_VOMITonly thing it’s good for such a stupid face
I used to be a commercial fisherman in NE. We caught one of these once. It was massive! Took six men on a wet slimy deck to get it back off. It's eye was as large as my entire outstretched hand. Beautiful amazing creatures. We got it back in the water unharmed.
Heheheheh *wet slimy deck* hehehehhe *6 men* aheeeehehe😁
@@mrpickles-hb6zx (Grandpa) "Mr. Pickle! It was him!"
You were a commercial fisherman in Nebraska? I’m guessing you didn’t do so hot…
@@brandhark7935 new england
I'm really glad that you got it back into the water unharmed, these are such gentle giants! :)
This thing embodies the concept of "if it looks stupid and works, it isnt stupid" and nobody else understands the strategy :D
“To find out, researchers invented the Mola cam. They didn’t call it that, but I’m calling it that.”
I love this so much.
I bet that Mola is _really_ enjoying that flashlight during it's deep dives.
Reminds me of when Zefrank was talking about jewelers that use cuttlebones to mold jewelry and says "These people are called cuttleboners. By me. And now by you." Gets me every time.
Ikr? This channel has always been good, but it's gotten _really_ good lately; scripts with great lines like that, graphics, etc.
Love to see it.
@10dhs-tc9pm you liked your own comment and have an ai generated pfp babe, maybe don't insult people 💔
Me: " There are plenty of fish in the sea"
The fish:
Don't be meannnnn
@@GeminiPlatypus😂
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AH... Plenty of Fish, that weird dating site once so popular
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I had the pleasure of seeing one of these funny fish in the wild!! Two years ago I was surfing at Ocean Beach in San Francisco on a sunny day around spring and I had paddled out just past the break. I look over in the water and spot a weird white object, but upon inspection it was one of these! It was roughly 1 meter long and was on its side at the surface 2 feet away from me. We hung out for about 5 minutes and it didn’t mind me at all. The whole time it was on its side gently flapping its wings and splashing the surface, but not actually moving anywhere. I tried to stay with it to marvel at it for as long as possible, but eventually a wave came and when I emerged from the duck dive it was gone😢. 10/10 would hang with a Mola mola again!
Awsome
Damn that's dope
It was carefully studying you and your board, wondering if you had any adaptations it could incorporate into its next weird biology update.
@@Unknown17 "Those hand things look useful, I'll add those in the next patch"
A computer made all life. DNA code comes from outside the universe.
My husband and I were fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico when an ocean sunfish surfaced maybe 25 yards from us. He rolled back and forth while looking us over in a curious fashion. It hung out like this for maybe 10 minutes and then disappeared under the water. A very curious creature.
I remember my first time ever seeing one. I was roughly 7 years old and my dad took us to an aquarium and everything was great until we reached this dark area. When we walked into that area I came across a big window for a massive tank with no other windows on the walls at the far end and I couldn't see a "top" where the surface of the water would be. Just a big cavity completely filled with water. It was dark but lit just enough that you could see everything inside, but there was only 1 single entitiy in the entire tank. A massive Sunfish just looming through the dim blue tank all by itself just floating around as if life had no meaning.
I don't know why, but it terrified me. It wasn't the fish itself, but something about the scene as a whole shook me to my core and I forgot literally everything about that trip except for that room...
That's insane my dude, and I get ur prespective u described the scene so well
Was it like seeing something that should be dead swimming around like it had life? Did it look alien to what you expected fish to be? Did it surprise you so much you were shocked? I'm just trying to comprehend how psychologically that occurs for someone, I'm curious
Sounds like it seemed depressing/depressed, what humans did to this magnificent creature, all alone in a prison. Also maybe a fear of what happens if such an oppressed creature breaks loose. I felt the same about a bison inside a giant stable at a zoo. I was so tiny and it was huge. Almost like being alone with it in the wild
Loneliness so intense and endless that life becomes unbearable 😢
Maybe the sunfish actually communicated with you. Not with words but with feelings?
@@lorinbridges6699 Sorry for the insanely late reply. I just now got notified that this thread still exists 😅 To answer your question, I didn't expect anything. I was a 7 year old kid wandering around an aquarium I didn't ask to go to but was still curious to explore. I just kind of walked into this situation all of a sudden and the responses to it just happened on their own.
The amount of clashing contrasts in my mind was just overwhelming. Contrast between that empty void of a place and the busy bustling energy of the rest of the world. It was like knowing there was a whole universe out there, but feeling like none of it mattered down here. You could be keenly aware of it all or totally ignorant and it wouldn't matter either way. I sensed that the fish was being fed and kept alive, but couldn't see how anyone or anything could get into or out of that dark topless underground chamber. And yet there it was, a massive living entity floating purposelessly in a cavern both lit yet dark. It seemed meaningless, yet I know it was put there on purpose, in much the same way those who believe in god feel they are here for a reason but still feel lost, isolated, and inconsequential. The colossal size of the tank but the fact that it was still a tank gave a sense of both boundless space and limiting entrapment. Like it's here to be seen, but it doesn't really matter if it actually is.
Possibly looking a bit too deep into it now as an adult, it feels like being told wordlessly that knowledge, purpose, right/wrong, and even life itself isn't necessary to this universe. It's nice to have, but none of it NEEDS to be here. There was a time before it and that was fine. We Live in a time that has it, and that's fine. There may be a time after it, and that's fine too. The universe is fine, just like this isolated, underground, meaningless, forgotten, trapped fish is, despite it all, doing just fine 😅
A good example of how "survival of the fittest" means fittest for their environment, not necessarily just the most strong/fast/smart etc
Truth
Yah, evolution is the biggest lie lol
@@iH8Globalistsbetter than whatever the hell creationism is
Them and Cheetahs
It always meant the most suitable in an environment
The sunfish is like one of those school projects that you do the night before and somehow it clutches a 5
The stingray was my last min savior. Jus pull open a wire coathanger, wrap in paper and voila!
The half second shot of the baby Mola 😆❤️ it's amazing how nature can make almost anything cute when it's very young.
11:12 Absolutely the most poignant and effective use of the scientific term "fart" ever recorded in modern videography. Thumbs, subs and all bells. You've made my week. Thank you.
Agreed. I laughed when she said that.
11:17 for the perfect repeating
The sunfish may not be very edible but that did not stop her from absolutely roasting it 😭
Not true. The sunfish is very very edible. Always remember that food is where you live.
Cate Food Travel - Harvesting Sunfish
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I watched a video of some asain people chopping one of these things for food and all i could think is that thing is nothing but gelatinous goo and cartilage nothing looked even remotely edible
she just straight out called the fish stupid, heck even its existence
I'm still laughing at that 🤣🤣🤣
Girl is envious of the PEAK EVOLUTIVE PERFORMANCE
LMAO that intro tho. For a while during that first 2 minutes, I was like "What is this? The Friar's Club Roast of the Sunfish?!". She was straight verbally massacring that fish. Talking about "its stupid looking deformed body" and "its weird flopping around at the surface behaviors" 😂. I half expected Jeff Ross to come out and tell her to go easy on it lol. This video ended up being very informative though, and I actually learned a lot about a fish I've always been really fascinated by. I fully support this new format of educational animal videos, where the first part is just roasting the hell out of the animal before then proceeding to educate about all of its fascinating biology. This was great. Both entertaining and informative
I saw one of these sunfish in Hawaii Scuba diving at age 13 in 1977. I fed it airline biscuits you get on the plane. It took the biscuits squeezed out of the plastic packet from my hand, something I have never forgotten. Definetly a gentle oddball creature.
Aww, that's so cute. And that sunfish has never forgotten that weird creature that fed it that tasty food that one time.
@@secretagent4610 Ha, I am definetly a weird creature. I hope that a lot of its billion eggs grew into more big sunfish.
"sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this Earth". Thank you. Someone finally understands me
Same 💜
Sunfish: "You can question my methods, but you can't question my results."
"Its a sea turtle!? ..No its a baby whale!!" 😂 Oh man that was hilarious! For me this sea unicorn is one of life's mot amazing creatures!😉Great video thx!
Yo I'm dumb but I thought he was saying "it's a baby wheel!"
The wonder and delight in his voice while speaking about a baby wheel being born was hilarious to me 😂
In their defense, we don't really see them much up here (I know exactly where they're from, because that's how we all talk in our area lol). I'm assuming our water might be a little too cold for most of them
@@cannibal.warriorThat's what it sounded like to me also. Lol
The east coast accent makes it so much more funnier 😂😂😂
It's a sea pizza!
Very educational and I like your candor! My 14 year old daughter encountered one at the beach on Long Island NY. The top fin splashed right next to her and the body brushed her friend. It spooked the heck out of them. The lifeguard told them they're harmless and they come to eat the jellyfish. It took a few years until she went back into the ocean after that.
They're harmless... what about the freaking jellyfish??
So in a way, they DO get energy from the sun by using it to heat themselves. I love this fish
I got energy from the sun by eating a cheeseburger made from a cow that ate grass that photosynthesised photons from the sun. Wait, what if basically all life on Earth gets all its energy from the sun because like entropy and thermodynamics!?! 🤯
0:23 Mark Wahlberg is that you? 😂
Love the way you present this like a regular person, very easy to understand and the way you describe this fish had me laughing 😂
I like her because she seems kind of pissed off at whatever she's explaining.
sorry but I find her irritating…
There is another reason sunfish bask near the surface and that's the parasites they accumulate. Because they' have no scales, only a mucus covered skin, it's much easier for parasites to latch on and some may even affect drag. So they float sideways at the surface and allow seabirds to pick at the parasites. The sunfish gets a bit of a cleanse and the birds get a free meal. Some fish hang around molas for the same reason, with the mola's size potentially protecting the smaller fish from their own predators.
What I don't get though is how they are able to survive having huge chunks bitten out of them and they carry on as if it were a minor inconvenience at best. These things might seem like evolutionary accidents, but the fact that they have survived for as long as they have means that they've clearly done something right down the line.
When you have a lot of parasites, unless the thing likes to eat parasites it tends to stay away, so prominent predators will learn real quickly to avoid sunfish if they want to feel good
I never thought I would see a sunfish dashcam in my life - it did not disappoint
"Sometimes, being weird is the best way to exist on this earth"
I feel seen.
Sun fish truly are my favourite ocean animal. They might not win any beauty contests, but they’ve won the contest to my heart lol
Coelacanths are dope too
So, if you are a sunfish, you won the lottery. When any creature lays that many eggs, the odds of being born at all is astronomical. You ARE that one in a billion.
You are one in millions also, you could have ended up swallowed, in a rubber, or in a hand, but nevertheless, here you are.
This fish gave me a really great fish story . I had been fishing off a jetty . But was not catching anything . Was walking down the beach with my wife and found a big dead ocean sunfish on the sand . It was over 4 feet long . I felt bad for it . But it was dead . So I put my little hook in its mouth . Let out some line . And had my wife take my picture like I had caught it . At work I was telling the people I worked with . I caught a giant ocean sunfish . I was only using 20 pound test line . And it took me over 5 hours to bring it in . They said sure you did . That's a good one . I said here is a picture . They then got all excited saying wow thought you were joking that's unbelievable that thing huge . By the time my dày was done I had people coming to me saying I heard you caught a ocean sunfish on 20 pound test line . Can I see the picture . Wow unbelievable . Yes it was unbelievable . Because I really did not catch it . If that sunfish had been alive . I would have done my best to get it back in the water . And would not had given up till I did .
Best tall fish tale lol
You’re not supposed to put spaces before periods, just after.
@@Goremachine ok thanks for the correction. I had a similar comment about where I had put my periods. Only that person asked me . Why are you putting a period before each start of a sentence. As you can obviously tell. My writing skills are severally lacking. But I only write comments in the hopes somebody will get a smile out of it. And not go all teacher on me. But in this case it's not a big deal. Losing a limb is a big deal. I am 66 and can remember all the red ink a teacher would put on a test they gave me back. I should have looked at what the problem was. Instead of looking at that red ink. 😊
If I'm your coworker I will ask the brand of 20lb line. That's one hell of a 20lb line haha
@@diomarim7322 this is why I told them it took me 5 hours to bring the fish in. So I wouldn't snap my line. Just very slowly play the fish till it got so tired. I could real it to shore . I had fun with my coworkers. I had gotten divorced . But am a private person. I did not go around work bad mouthing my wife. It was not some drawn out divorce. And not a big deal to either one of us. But one day for fun. I told a coworker. I cannot believe my x wife. He says I did not even know you were married. I said yes it just did not work out. But that she had sent me a picture of babies she had. Because I never wanted children. I said look at this picture. It was a picture of a mother pig feeding her babies. He said I should have known better believing anything you say. Life has no guarantees we will live even till tomorrow. Things happen. So for me. I do my best to not freakout over every little thing. I get a bad day. I do not dwell on it. I just get over it and do my best to just forget about it. So I do not lose night sleep out of it. Things when I was much younger would drive me so full of anxiety. I was like a over tightened spring. Just ready to let go. But over time realized all kinds of things happen to everyone. And getting all pissed off over it. Does not help the situation. Just figure things out and move on. The past is done.
I was snorkeling off the coast of Cozumel when I saw my first sunfish...two, in fact. We were about a half mile offshore, so I'll admit I was pretty spooked just because they were so massive. Finally, all these years of watching nature documentaries paid off when I realized what they were and could just relax and watch.
This fish literally went "Fuck the meta, I'll do what I want"
maybe the fish is THE meta xD
I spent most weekends of my childhood on my parents' game fishing boat off the coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and we'd fairly often see huge examples of these. My dad would tell me they were sunbathing.
Yeah my uncle was fishing one time (im in Portugal) and saw a big lump so he shot it with his harpoon and fished it. we dont have these fish here. we were shocked when we found out where it was from. we made lots of amazing dishes while it lasted tho. was never a big fish fan but i never forgot the taste of that one haha
@@Fabiani930 Sounds gross. The videos even said they are greasy/fatty blobs!
@@michaelkrynski7793 it just looks gross. lot of actual meat in them. i have a fish phobia so i wouldnt eat it if they told me it was this monstruosity before. but filleted on a plate is amazing haha
Your dad was right 😊 sunbathing is one of their favorite pasttimes!! Sometimes their seagull friends will clean parasites off their bodies while they're at the surface, which does the sunfish a huge favor considering they can have over 40 different variants of parasites living on them at a given time.
@michaelkrynski7793 it's considered a delicacy and is said to taste like crab or lobster 🤣
As always, amazing coverage on this topic! I also loved the humor and the fact that you included the infamous Boston Sunfish clip 😂 “That’s a tuna, bro!” (2 seconds later) “What IS that thing, Jay?”
“Omg it’s a baby whale” 😭😭
A Baby Wheel in the wild!
How the heck did you find her voice amazing? Jesus Christ
I've seen a few of them. Most recently was 2017 9 miles off the coast of St Augustine, FL. I was out solo on my 21' boat fishing for red snapper and cobia. I was in the middle of tying rigs and one floated right up next to the boat. I was actually startled for a minute but then I realized what it was and got some good photos and video of it. Cool creature, never know what you'll see out there!!
fun fact: in German the sunfish is called Mondfisch (moonfish)
Really? ☺
@@MrHyperpolyglot yes, really ^^
Any specific reason for the name change?
Wait lol, why?
Also in Spanish: pez luna
Well, the ocean sunfish has turned out to be quite a Biologically clever fish. I admire them and I wish them all the best. The babies are adorable.
Caught off guard by the unexpected Ricky Gervais-style roast at the beginning! The sunfish didn't just swim into the deep end, it swam into a comedy central roast session. Educational and entertaining! I'm subbing to the channel immediately.
You forgot to mention Mola can "fly" 10 to 15 feet out of the water vertically (have seen it with my own eyes on numerous occasions).
she roasted this fish so hard and I've never related to a fish more lmao
I loved how much personality was in the narration too
You relate to this fish? How? Are you and enormous disc-shaped creature, unable to close your mouth, and swim to improbably depths to eat gelatinous phytoplankton on a regular basis?
@@FromRussia_With_Love enormous sphere shaped, mouth breather and swim in grease all day, I can see how some humans can relate lmao.
@@FromRussia_With_Loveno I just look kinda silly
@@Ripcraze Aha! But they DON'T breathe through their mouths, they breathe through their gills while keeping their mouths open!
I'm screwing around of course.
This dump truck of a fish is genuinely my favorite. Endless Ocean was the first time I had ever seen it and both kickstarted my love for the ocean.
Lol like the RV of the ocean.
I’ve seen one at a marine rehab facility. About 30inches fin to fin and the little dude was CRUISING around pretty quick
The way you explained the concept at 17:00 is brilliant
I remember I had some little scuba diving game for the Wii called Endless Ocean that I played all the time as a kid. There was an option you could eventually unlock where you could go on night dives and I found a sunfish and I was absolutely terrified. I had no clue what it was, I thought it was some kind of floating shark head
Oh my gosh, I think I played this game when I was quite young and I've been trying to remember what it was called for years!! I loved the game, but I was so terrified of this one part where you had to swim past a tiger shark that it scared me from playing it ever again 😅
Same! I was trying to remember the game’s name for ages 🫣🫣
That first two minutes was an emotional roller coaster
Yea must be a Monday
Seeing one of these at the Monterey Bay Aquarium while on vacation as a child was simply mind blowing. I had seen them plenty of times on video, but their size was simply breathtaking. Thanks for the awesome content, this one lit up a bunch of ancient memories and taught me a good number of new things about a simply stunning flat af fishy friend.
The fact that this is a real documentary is on par with insults against a comedy impromptu of David Attenborough hating on toads
Mola Mola genuinely seems like an unfinished prototype of a normal fish.
Or a reworked one!
Fish said:👁️👄👁️
👁O👁
Sorry I had to..
more like: 🧿👄🧿
Lol
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I did a research project for Marine Biology in high school about the Mola Mola because I always thought it was the most unique looking fish and really wanted to find out why it looked like this
That's incredible that it does so many deep dives while looking like it can hardly move! That's one impressive fish!
I had one come up to me while diving years ago and have often seen them around the boat while fishing. They are friendly and fascinating! Cool video!
Fidhing like unaliving other fish?
Why do you admire one species but undo others?
I have no idea what you are trying to say lol
@@CordeliaWagner You sound like another annoying vegan.
@@jamesblake7338 did it interact with you or just look at you
@@CordeliaWagnerThe same reason why we eat pigs and not dogs (at least in most cultures), plus if you watched the video, sunfishes are big and heavy with thick skin, I don't think one guy can deal with a 2 ton fish
I had no idea the sunfish was so incredible! Thank you so much for making this video and other great educational content. "The Insane Biology of: " series has got to some of my favorite content of all time! Absolutely fascinating stuff!!
This is super interesting, I love how diverse ocean life is. There's so much variety and different evolutionary paths.
I did not expect the baby Sunfish to be so damn cuuuute. This animal have always fascinated me and never even for one second considered it weird-looking, always thought they looked cool.
My first exposure to the ocean sunfish was Kine from Kirby's Dream Land 2. I thought it was a fictional fish species from the Kirby universe back then. I was really surprised when I found out that this oddly proportioned fish was real a few years later. It's a fascinating creature.
Same here
Yepp
Mine was Alomomola from Pokémon.
same
Truth is stranger than fiction, art imitates life, etc. etc.
"this is the dumbest fish ever"
15 minutes later
"this may be the most perfect fish ever."
She scientifically roasted it for so long, I had to double check the channel name
I saw a sunfish (Mola mola) while boating in Hawaii in 2005. It was floating on its side. I thought it was dead at first, but when the boat got too close, it righted itself, sank, and swam slowly away. Weird looking fish to be sure. (Jan Griffiths).
Within the first two minutes, I was prepared to bust out my 8 page essay defense of sunfish, as they are my favorite animal ever, and encountering this sort of sunfish hate is extremely common. However, I am so pleased with the outcome!! Sunfish have long deserved some love, and if they did not exist, our ecosystem would be in shambles. My lifelong passion has been to protect these creatures ❤ thank you for bringing recognition to this beautiful fish!!
(I am always dying to talk about these guys so if you want more cool sunfish facts you are more than welcome to let me know)
We want some sunfish facts-what makes you say our ecosystem would be in shambles without them?
@@Badger3Yes! we want sunfish facts
@Badger3 im so glad you asked!! sunfishies favorite snack are jellyfish :) considering global warming, many "dead zones" (or zones that don't grow much life besides plankton and other microorganisms) have become overrun with jellyfish, a creature that survives off of eating microorganisms and can thus survive in dead zones. Now you can see where sunfish come in :D they tame the jellyfish population! Without them, jellyfish could overrun these dead zones (and just multiply and multiply like crazy, they can be very dangerous too).
@plootyluvsturtle9843 a sunfish fact for you as well :D when sunfish are born, they have a working jaw and a row of top and bottom teeth. As mentioned in the video, they also have a tail fin when born. However, as they grow, not only does their tail grow back in on itself, but it's skin/muscles/jaw solidifies so much and their teeth just about disappear that they can no longer open and close their mouth. Which doesn't matter much for them, considering they just like to slurp up some jellyfish! I'm so happy you wanted to know more about sunfishies!!
I want some sunfish facts too!! As a kid I saw a sunfish in an aquarium and I'm pretty sure that fish still will be the weirdest creature I had ever seen. I also thought they were the coolest fish ever when I was like 8 or something.
This feels like a poster child for a TierZoo F tier
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like so many other topic that you've covered, this is a video about something that I've wondered but never learned about, so thank you again Stephanie for teaching me about another unique animal!
I do the same thing for what you do on ground news, the words used often show the leanings of the reporting entity, which i find fascinating and useful
i'm privileged to have grown up in the same county as the esteemed monterey bay aquarium and research institute, so when i was a child my elementary school had regular trips to the aquarium. the pacific sunfish they have in their open ocean tank were my favorite fish form the moment i saw them. something about their specimen was just enchanting to me
I went on a whale watching tour and we didn’t see anything but this fish. The guide got super excited seeing one while everyone on the boat could not care less lol.
I'd call that a ship of fools....😒
@@christinacalzacorta5123lol that’s actually really funny
I mean if you paid $50 to see a whale but saw a sunfish, you'd think you got ripped off and hope for a refund. It's understandable.
@gavinlew8273 no refund but you got half off the next trip if you wanted to see another whale tour and they are pretty upfront you may not see a whale. It was just funny. Plus, they can't really tell the whales where to be haha
@@gavinlew8273idk, but going on a sightseeing _in nature_ and not seeing anything and then *expecting a refund* seems so fking ignorant and entitled to me. If you want whimsical entertainment as a package deal, go to bloody Disneyland. Nature doesn't give a sh!t about our wants and desires, nor should it.
"Rules for animals that actually function"
Yikes she just turned the sunfish into some barbecue with that one
Talking about looking goofy to be underestimated reminded me of my father, who was a legitimate genius in some ways, especially his work as a psychologist, but part of his method was choosing to appear kind of spaced out & goofy at the start, both in his career & in his personal life.
"They didnt call it that, but *I'm* gonna call it that." I love your narration style SO MUCH. 😂please never change lol
I've also never heard someone say "aggressively fart out the gas" with such class.
I can remember my father coming across a sunfish when fishing, must be 45 years ago. He definitely didn't bring it home lol but he was pretty excited about seeing it.
Fishing for Albacore 60 miles off the coast of Santa Cruz, Ca.on a friends commercial boat for the first time in the 70's, we came across one of these basking in the sun only a few yards from the boat. He was just laying on its side on top flapping his fins and looking at us with that great big eye. This was my first time seeing one. I feel very lucky that I got to see such a beautiful, and gentle giant of the sea!
I managed to see 3 of these swimming together whilst snorkeling off of Fitzroy island in Queensland Australia. It was absolutely nuts, seeing the sheer size of them cruise past parallel and surprisingly quick
The ocean sunfish is one of the best animals in existence and nothing can change my mind. It looks like a drawing made by a three year old. I’m obsessed with it.
My Father and I used to troll past these in Monterrey Bay. Over the years I saw several of them, afloat near the surface and that huge eye staring up at me. I was age 10 and it was before the internet, so I went to the library to find a detailed reference, because I couldn't get their image out of my mind.
I remember at first site, I really thought i'd seen a huge, injured half-fish, probably cut by a vessel's prop. That big eye looking at me in desperation before it's helplessly eaten by sharks.
But so many fishing trips and I kept seeing them occasionally. So I realized them among the incredible mysteries of the Monterrey.
I remember going on a field trip to Lisbon, in which we went to the oceanarium. I was sort of staring at all the fish including the sharks. I also had seen this one a bit far away. Suddenly, as I was distracted watching every fish I could, this things pops out in front of me and starts turning really slowly, facing us. For a few seconds it stared into my eyes. I never felt so much dread in such short time and I know this thing is harmless. Funny how such a random moment makes you remember one of these weirdo animals.
They look so silly like ":0"
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@@Milkko3exactly 😂
Sunfish are my favorite fish. I sit in front of the Montery Aquarium tank and watch them. Well, they have only one. They need to release them every so often because they grow too large for the tank. And it's a big tank!