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 ...

New SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for PLANET EARTH AND HUMANITY: This blog site derives from the original version of Planet Earth & Humanity, but will be more WE than ME. The coverage will remain similar, but perhaps these postings will seem to come from a parallel universe, or maybe even Purgatory. But truth and reality will prevail, with dashes of whimsy and levity to help make your day.