Mola Mola Are Breaking World Records

[@BizarreBeasts]

We are having some technical issues here at Bizarre Beast Headquarters! If the Mola Mola pin is still password protected, use the password "SUNFISH" to access this cute little guy. complexly.store/products/mola-mola-pin

[@nerobaal6655]

I have a weird organism 😐. I put some leftover plant extract into an old apple cider vinegar bottle and it turned into a really long red sperm like thing with a bulbous body part , a long tail that forks at the end with two spikes.

[@NewMessage]

The fish so nice, they named it twice.

[@notlucdoucette]

I love this comment.

[@mitchc.2660]

I love the Weekenders 10/10 callback. Lol

[@dothedo3667]

Lots of animals are like that

[@fathurrahmanhaikal6144]

Ah yes, Jay Jay Okocha of the ocean

[@megamike420]

Funny because the ad before this featured nicepool from the newest deadpool

[@BulletSponge178]

That growth rate is horrifying. Like horror movie/Resident Evil monster levels of growth over time

[@freshoutofcrabs]

Can you imagine the growing pains?

[@itsdonaldo]

What did the Spanish twins say to this fish? Hola Hola Mola Mola

[@haumenic]

Good one! 😂

[@ShadowHawkThe3rd]

I cannot believe you skipped over one of my favorite wild facts about these fish. Their skin and protective mucus layer are so thick and rigid that adult Mola Mola are considered to have exoskeletons!!

[@Hellheart]

Thick skin and mucus does not an exoskeleton make.

[@itchy7879]

We are all lumpy and magnificent!!!!

[@vladtepes97]

weight room poster

[@bill_and_amanda]

In my high school in Orlando, we had a marine biology classroom with several pretty big fish tanks because we had a partnership with Sea World (since the school was only a couple miles from the park). They gave us a sunfish for our tank and it was so cool to watch it swim around. I had a snowflake moray and ended up donating it to the school as well and they chilled on the same tank together.

[@dycorty9182]

Woohoo!!! Congrats on the titanic endeavor of remastering the series! Always 1000% here for circling back when new information comes out and for added clarity, a great hallmark of the sciences 😁😁

[@bjornmu]

In Norwegian they are called månefisk, literally moonfish, I guess because of the roughly circular shape, like the full moon.

[@Morgawayne]

We call it moon fish too here in Portugal! 😊

[@PortCharmers]

Yep, "Mondfisch" in German.

[@Shade-Spark]

Poisson-lune bonjour! At least I get why referencing the moon with the fins. I feel the "linguistics story" of why it's opposite in english is interesting, because the explanation about the fish.... meh.

[@rh3ttj]

@@Shade-Spark "referencing the moon with the fins" I don't understand, but I only speak english. Is there some sort of association with fins and the moon in other languages? Maybe I'm just having a brain fart.

[@NeilKynes]

We also call it "aybalığı"(moonfish) in Turkish.

[@levilukeskytrekker]

Here comes the Sun... fish. Doo-doo doo doo.

[@KorokHaze93]

Mola Mola just be out here derpin up the ocean and im totally here for it.🤷‍♂️

[@clandeszipp4564]

I saw one in Tokyo Seaworld some 15 years ago. The enclosure was so dark and I could barely see the giant in the dark. It looked so scary - a complete black dark water tank and a big floating monster in the deep. Yikes. Gives me the creeps.

[@kf10147]

That’s how I feel about oarfish bc I was playing a scuba diving minigame and got jumpscared from the depths by one in middle school

[@yesterdaydream]

Best fish. Fight me.

[@swayback7375]

I know they’re awesome but fighting them won’t increase your awesome. Unless you start a consensual mola mola fight club and climb the ranks to get number 1… then you’re good bro, respect. All I can say if better start working out you pectoral flap…😊

[@yesterdaydream]

@@swayback7375 I'm taking this idea and swimming with it!!!😂

[@leogama3422]

pufferfish! they have special bacteria that produce tetrodoxin, one of the most potent toxins in nature and which they are immune to. and have you seen their skeletons? nightmare stuff 🐡

[@Jezus42]

My dad had a sail boat. We were sailing back into Newport Bay and we saw the littlest sunfish just flopping along at the surface

[@Zuzu00000]

Just how little was he? A foot wide? Smaller?

[@Jezus42]

@Zuzu00000 I'd say it was 2 feet across

[@takenname8053]

What an ABSOLUTE UNIT!

[@travisinthetrunk]

It’s weird seeing Hank before with his straight hair and after with his chemo curls.

[@Laura-kl7vi]

I think it's cool, but kind of poignant. I guess his curls are a mark of survival and I think of him and what he went through. Happy to see both versions of Hank.

[@eloquent_redneck3719]

What's really weird is how straight hair hank looks weird now

[@ellemarr7234]

@@eloquent_redneck3719 right? I was wondering where the curls went and my eyes were squinting. Love both versions, so glad he beat the big c 🎉

[@katbairwell]

I love that you did this revisit of season 0, it really shows just how much natural history, and ethology, are still rapidly evolving sciences, and not just the preserve of dusty old museums!!

[@dycorty9182]

(Also, Love the tag team between you two for this episode!)

[@augustlizabethmoore]

I love how early Hank and now Hank have two different hair styles

[@sarasmr4278]

That moon blouse looks amazing on you!

[@lambentlamprey]

I think it's 'moon phases' from Blackmilk.

[@hewcouk]

Omg finally! I’ve been waiting (not very patiently) for the mola mola!!

[@KnowAll-u6l]

You have a real talent for connecting with your audience. Your enthusiasm is contagious! I feel like I'm learning from a friendYou have a real talent for connecting with your audience. Your enthusiasm is contagious! I feel like I'm learning from a friend

[@booskie4316]

This is the biggest creature I've run into in the ocean. I had one sneak up on me while I was doing a sea turtle snorkel and was scared half to death.

[@Beryllahawk]

"on this journey with us" made me unexpectedly BAWL

[@Styphon]

A perfect Adventure Time creature, Lumpy Sea Princess

[@moss8809]

Yooo Ocean Sunfish are my favorite fish! Thanks for covering it 💙💙💙🌞🐟

[@MrT_Rex]

Evolution loves fishes shaped like pancakes (and I love pancakes too)

[@Hannah_Em]

Hank and Sarah together in the same room??? This feels... faintly sacrilegious, somehow /lh

[@ILoveLamp_1995]

I absolutely love sunfish! They're one of my favourite fish ever, and I love their dopey lil faces!!!

[@ShintarufromdA]

The sunfish is my favorite fish (all of them). I adore these lumpy fellows so much, and this video has only made me love them more.

[@armandinalecz651]

when hank said "thank you for coming on this journey with us" i shed a tear for journey the microcosmos 🥲 what a double whammy of a series ending episode! its been real cool to see these creatures and i'm excited for the next lot for sure! 😁

[@andreask.2675]

Another fun fact: In German they are called "Mondfisch" which translates to moonfish. 😄

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

1:44 so more like coincidental evolution?

[@Tser]

I love you too, Mola mola.

[@HKduane]

4:43 with our luck there are sunfish who live in the deep ocean and are more like moonfish 🙃 I agree with John on sunfish

[@tiffanymarie9750]

It's a baby f*kin wheel Jay!

[@piplupcola]

Oh to be a sunfish not a braincell in sight, just drifiting along the ocean waves, Pecked by seagulls for fun

[@elissajaguar]

Hooray for sunfish freedom!!!!!

[@Tser]

Saw an observation on iNaturalist, licorice ferns glow under UV, gonna go out shining my light on some epiphytic ferns this weekend. Haha.

[@FairMiles]

¡Mola el Mola mola! 🇪🇸

[@risxra]

Omg, I had no idea that was a word in Spanish. ¡Muchas gracias por la información!

[@oneshotme]

I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up

[@Hannah_Em]

ughhh, I wish I had the spare money available to be able to get a mola mola pin (or the s0 pin set more broadly tbh, but that's even more out of reach), they're so cool!

[@Ezaehring]

Aw, I'm bummed that you didn't include the bit about the tumblr rant about how "it's so worthless it doesn't know that it shouldn't exist."

[@Metikoi]

I was looking for someone mentioning that, it is kind of harshing the sunfish's giant Derpy vibe though.

[@DJFracus]

Is this the rant that comes from imgur? That rant is really stupid and I'm glad they didn't include it.

[@emilyzaehring4722]

@@DJFracus that's fair. I just liked the bit about "That's not how evolution works, Bront!" Evolution doesn't care about our expectations or whether something looks goofy. It cares about what's sufficient.

[@madderhat5852]

So I've still got time to discover Mola Mola Mola?

[@jasonremy1627]

It's a baby wheel!

[@ShinySalazzle]

0:56 loving this fish is probably the most unpopular opinion you can have lol

[@vegetable_warmth]

I thought I was the only one, but I know someone who has a sunfish tattoo! Jealousss

[@ApequH]

Why? They are awesome in the most litteral sense of the word.

[@mellissadalby1402]

Great series

[@naricaution356]

I'm really wanting one of those pins. It matches the sunfish barrette I got from the Monterey Bay aquarium when I was 6. It's crazy to think they had to release it because it outgrew the tank. That tank is astoundingly large.

[@MrAtrophy]

Bonus, they are related to pufferfish.

[@stax6092]

Everybody does need more Mola-Molas in their life.

[@HCBurlingame]

They had one at the Monterey Aquarium they watch you and they look like they have a face. It was released when it got too big.

[@tylerknowsanimals]

I have a bit of a random question. How do you guys go about obtaining the videos and images used for your videos? Basically, I too am looking to create an educational wildlife channel, but I’m worried about copyright infringement. I’ve seen many sources claim that if you’re using the otherwise copyrighted material for educational purposes, like y’all do and I hope to, that you should be good to go. However, I’ve also encountered sources claiming this isn’t the case and that they’ve received copyright strikes despite doing this? So, if your wonderful channel could provide insight, it’d be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Also, another excellent video!

[@jimmitchell6000]

Educational fair use is a defense after you've been sued for infringement, it won't prevent you being sued or KZbin doing anything if it thinks you violated any terms, etc.

[@tylerknowsanimals]

@ Okay. That makes a good deal of sense. Thank you for the clarification. So, the best thing to do would be to just use public domain / Creative Commons media then, I take it? (Even tho so many other channels don’t.)

[@jimmitchell6000]

@@tylerknowsanimals Ideally, you acquire a license for any media that requires it. "Public domain", CC, stuff you created personally, etc, avoids that. For large scale commercial use, a business like Complexly probably has staff whose job to acquire media and the correct rights for use on their channels, calendars, etc. They have a lot more to lose than you do.

[@tylerknowsanimals]

@@jimmitchell6000 That once again makes sense to me. Thank you for your responses, and I will keep this in mind going forward.

[@BizarreBeasts]

A great question! We pay for a license to use Getty images, hunt for things that are online with a Creative Commons or Creative Commons Attribution license, and then do a lot of emailing and messaging for everything else. It is a roll of the dice, but a lot of folks are very generous as long as they know what you are doing and that they'll be credited appropriately. I think the highest success rate is normally with researchers from newer papers (if the publication lets them keep the rights to their paper) and lowest (but not impossible!) success rate is with professional photographers/cinematographers (completely understandable, selling stock images is how they pay their rent). - Sarah

[@raeperonneau4941]

Hank, love the new hair cut. Is it back to being straight or still curly?

[@CMZneu]

Wish this video had more info, it barely scratched the surface

[@jakobraahauge7299]

In Danish the graceful and dazzling sunfish is called "klumpfisk" which means lump or clump fish, because they are like big clump or lump. What an amazing creativity and inspiration that went into that name!

[@mdelles]

If you like the mola mola you should check out the Opah Fish (also known as the moon fish) who is also weird because it's a fish that's endothermic!

[@Rubrickety]

"Thank you for coming on this journey with us, as we explore... a big honkin' fish."

[@DS.proudkiwi]

I was lucky enough to see a sunfish, at a walf on the east coast of NZ as a kid . Such a cool fish....if i ever caught one id let it go

[@Terny228]

Reborn again as a Mola Mola or a sea turtle basking in the sun, decisions, decisions, Hey a Jellyfish, Gulp!

[@jamesmeppler6375]

I still think its weird seeing hank on another channel but he's still doing pins! Last I saw of him. He had chemo and then he was gone.and no offense to those other people, but hank was my favorite, he just disappeared and no one said anything. I haven't even seen that last channel show any videos since then either

[@Helloimlux]

What about the fish i used to catch in lake ontario we called a sunfish?

[@salo6724]

Mola? Mola!

[@Herowebcomics]

They are so cute and big and weird!😊

[@Iowa599]

How much food was eaten by the Mola^2 that grew 850lbs in 15 months?

[@Nikki0417]

"It's a baby wheel fish!"

[@whisperpone]

Good morning Mr. Sunfish!

[@rooislangwtf]

Mola Mola: I have a mouth and I must scream

[@kinguin7]

That.... sounds like convergent evolution? What's "real" convergent evolution if this isn't?

[@DJFracus]

yeah I would still call that convergent evolution, just not for the reason originally suspected

[@caroljo420]

I went to the Monterey Aquarium when they had the sunfish there. It was enormous!

[@jonahblock]

I want to challenge the idea that the boney sunfish does not share convergent evolution with turtles. this is in fact a case of convergent evolution and the sunfish worked with what it has to replicate the same swimming and buoyancy tricks as the seaturtle, but the bony sunfish has also been evolving its own "shell" out of bone the same way the turtles ancestors first evolved shells out of their own bones, that's what we call it a bony fish

[@Kyle_Spivis]

Heck yeah, if you’d like to make another beast video I recommend the northern flying squirrel.

[@DJLucas-xv7oe]

Molas don't have ribs like their closest relatives: The pufferfish and porcupine pufferfish. Both of them lost their ribs as exaptations to the puffing behavior, so that means it happened before their ancestors with the molas. That would make molas giant pufferfish that lost the ability to puff itself like a balloon.

[@irinaphoenix2169]

But we only saw one animation of the teeth??? I done get it.

[@CephalopodaCentral14]

Another ocean friend!

[@clintparsons3989]

I didn’t even know they had teeth.

[@mr.metaphysic1336]

Mola Mola is the Forrest Gump of the oceans.

[@drink__more__water]

So far so good! Congrats on the corrections, now on to season one!

[@chaosopher23]

Jellies? Sea chilies! If you ate such a spicy diet, you would have trouble closing your mouth, too!

[@Eli-db9ml]

Yes! I AM great! I WILL keep being lumpy and magnificent!! Thank you Hank

[@SireBab]

I would have loved to get a closer look at that skeleton, it looked wild, like an old draft of flying machine from leonardo devinci

[@MdnghtEther]

I’m just gonna call it the pogfish

[@Iowa599]

It's not any harder to find mistakes than reading comments! btw, I believe corrections should include a reference to the first comment which mentioned the mistake.

[@AroundTheBlockAgain]

I wonder if someday we'll get a citation on that "sunfish jumped on me RIP" incident

[@pattheplanter]

Monetary Bay in the correction at 4:48 ?

[@BizarreBeasts]

Ah, yes. That was not how to spell "Monterey Bay."

[@pattheplanter]

@@BizarreBeasts Sand dollars! I knew there was pun to be had but it took me a day to think of it.

[@tnt-boom]

Can you do a video on axolotls?

[@scolioscraps8612]

Wait what?! Seriously, I don’t understand what she means when she says it’s not convergent evolution before describing what sounds a lot like convergent evolution?

[@Ephem13]

So, straight hair Hank just seems like an alternate reality thing now.

[@FylMarite]

wtf i just found out about this and it’s over 😢😂

[@GrimmDelightsDice]

Just their season 0 remakes! The new episodes will continue ♡

[@daeseongkim93]

I've eaten the Mola Mola and it's not very good. Gelatinous yet chewy, no taste, takes on the flavor of the sauce you use.

[@dingledorf5615]

OH MY FAUCI

[@rachel4483]

The captive one probably grew that big that fast because they killed off all the parasites in addition to providing regular meals and optimal temperatures.

[@JanetStarChild]

It's my favorite buddy in Kirby's Dreamland 2.

[@alexstroebele184]

Okay guys but your forgetting about their weird cousin the Opah! The Warm Blooded fish!!

[@yojnyletak803]

Young Hank giving that Biebs vibe

[@Pastajelly1388]

Its thr pog fish

[@greensteve9307]

2,744 kg! That's 1000 kg more than what my car weighs! That's up there with African elephants!

[@creganx83]

My favorite lumpy fish

[@narrator69]

I've heard they are bulletproof

[@lizardmilk]

LSP Lumpy Sea Princess.

[@tyujg7495.]

I wish to see one in Irl