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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A GIANT SUNFISH?

  I was scrolling through my e-mail this morning and up pops a close encounter with a sunfish.   See this video for yourself .  That above video of a woman diver being investigated by a sunfish was taken by  Luis Miguel Gutierrez Bringas  off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico in late March. Sunfish reside in open waters across the globe in tropical and temperate oceans and feed on mainly jellies and other gelatinous zooplankton like salps, squid, fish, crustaceans and algae . Two years ago,  Daniel Botelho  stumbled across a sunfish--mola mola, capable of getting up to 5000 pounds--while on a mission to photograph blue whales off San Diego. From six years ago, a BBC Earth  video of a sunfish  in Galapagos waters.  Watch the researchers getting so excited and awed. From  Master Liveaboards , everything you should know about the sunfish: To the right is a sunfish fry (baby), 3/32 inch long.  Note how the sharp outer edges ...