The dorsal fins of sunfish are taller and narrower than those of a white shark, he added. They are not considered dangerous to humans, as they have small mouths and feed on jellyfish.

A first-time angler on an overnight trip out of San Diego has landed a potential world-record opah. Beau Leaman of Santa Clarita, Ca., caught the 188.6-pound opah, or moonfish, after a 45-minute ...

The ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish, not including stingrays or sharks. Mola molas can weigh up to 5,000 pounds.

A giant southern ocean fish was found in Azores, Portugal, and it reportedly weighed more than 6,000 pounds. The Atlantic Naturalist Association says the sunfish broke a world record.

A sunfish was also captured by a crew on a tuna fishing boat off the coast of the Mediterranean coast of Ceuta, Spain. It was 10.5 feet long and 9.5 feet long, but it was too heavy for their scale ...

Sunfish feed between depths of 660 and 2,000 feet (200 to 600 m), where they eat jellyfish, small fish and crustaceans. While hunting, temperatures can drop to less than 10 degrees celsius.