The Insane Biology of: The Sunfish

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Credits:
Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator: Jacek Ambrożewski
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (kpatart.com/illustrations)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (haerther.net)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster ( / forgottentowel )
Producer: Brian McManus ( / realengineering )
References:
[1]www.oceansunfish.org/evolutio...
[2]onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
[3] www.necropsymanual.net/en/tel...
[4] www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
[5] www.researchgate.net/publicat...
[6] besjournals.onlinelibrary.wil...
[7] oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/...
[8] www.sciencedirect.com/science...
[9] www.taylorfrancis.com/chapter...
[10] www.oceansunfish.org/Rev%20Fi...

[@sojiro288]

Lol she spent the first 2 min absolutely destroying this fish before explaining the insanity behind its biology

[@alp6502]

That's usually how it goes for this poor fish lol😅

[@hanselguzman7089]

Poor animal

[@mrjoe332]

The fact that she was still using her professional tone makes it even more hilarious

[@bfitz5610]

If that fish could read it would be very upset

[@curioushoodie]

"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." 😂😂😂

[@nanocodethespectator2646]

"Stupid-looking deformed body" Bro did not have to go down that hard on the poor thing 😭

[@aubreywhaley7729]

So Bro is Unisexed now, depicts male and female, lol. Bro back in my time meant Black Men

[@HD-hy9xy]

@@aubreywhaley7729 Great opinion, however, Bruthaman

[@Mr.Wilsin]

​@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!

[@aubreywhaley7729]

@@Mr.Wilsin this is what I meant , still so when did women become bros and brotha as a norm is what I'm asking?

[@HD-hy9xy]

@@aubreywhaley7729 i'd say when black people were recognized as people, probably

[@alychampion6356]

Man those first 2 minutes were PERSONAL

[@karencollins2294]

🤣

[@Romulan2469]

She's another Karen. All forgiven.

[@refosco1993]

🤣🤣🤣

[@timjacob991]

lol 😂

[@Tiberiusnerius]

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.

[@TheAnnoyingBoss]

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

[@WarFoxThunder]

IKR LOL

[@russBwright]

"lured" you in.. I see what you did there ;)

[@IronForgedUnderPressure]

Yeah. I like roasted sunfish as well. 😋

[@cassanateli]

Never mistake curiosity for fascination

[@tsundear1731]

“How does such an awkward, slow moving thing become so massive?” I ask myself the same question ever day

[@ISS600]

The idea of deep-sea gigantism, I think.

[@lm3976]

lmao

[@tracyhardyjohnson1315]

🤣🤣🤣

[@lesliedefilippis2150]

😂 Me too!!!! 😅🤣😂

[@Me-zo8yc]

😂

[@b1gturtle]

Bro he’s just a fish stop bullying him 😂

[@StefanReich]

Fish mobbing is a real problem

[@co0ki3M0NstAr]

Oml not his fault his spine folded in 😂

[@leandersearle5094]

Stop! Stop! He's already [Fish]!

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣

[@donbrashsux]

@@MAGGOT_VOMITonly thing it’s good for such a stupid face

[@aryah66]

"It's a BABY WHALE!" took me all the way out 😂😂😂

[@jaxjaxattaxx]

Lmfaooooo it was the complete confidence in his observation 😂☠️

[@Frau_Brotchen]

I thought they said "its a baby *wheel* " 😭

[@viktorbihar5384]

Can't even get mad about how wrong bro got the fish with that accent.

[@day4162]

​@viktorbihar5384 lmaooooo that was my IMMEDIATE thought 😂😂😂

[@Fishhunter2014]

Bwahsten

[@probablynotleo4340]

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.

[@cynthiakila1161]

Story my life “ people do quick to jump to conclusions without understanding the whole picture

[@antonioramirez-fh1vl]

I hope she never stops narrating this channel hahaha she completely bodied this fish in the most professional way 😂

[@kayleighgroenendal8473]

There goes all her followers who were Ocean Sunfish 😅

[@gshaindrich]

there is nothing "professional" about the narration! quite the opposite...

[@JubioHDX]

@@gshaindrich found the mola mola

[@SM-wv2nu]

@@gshaindrichhave a sense of humour! :D she's just being silly

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

When the Mola-Mola's face isn't getting punched by divers, I bet its mouth and the narrator's mouth gets sexually violated. 😯🤣

[@user-ip2zh8gz7d]

"Being weird is the best way to exist on this earth" I like that quote.

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Either be seen as a god or get stoned to death in 3rd world countries😹

[@Stierenkloot]

It isn't working for me tho

[@parob7285]

@@Stierenkloot change your habitat then until you find fit :D

[@bigstepper4125]

​@@Stierenklootevolve into something weirder then

[@GewelReal]

Nah. Stay normal

[@ArcadeRacer]

The first two minutes of this documentary are single-handedly the most brutal and crispy roast I have ever witnessed.

[@deanevangelista6359]

Mmmmmm, roasted sunfish!

[@sunnyg1384]

A good example of how "survival of the fittest" means fittest for their environment, not necessarily just the most strong/fast/smart etc

[@Monster-39]

Truth

[@RomansChap8]

Yah, evolution is the biggest lie lol

[@majimbo8528]

​@@RomansChap8better than whatever the hell creationism is

[@thenerdsword1407]

@@RomansChap8How is it a lie

[@goatsplitter]

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!

[@kzzaa7694]

Winged rubber sea mattress is a better name

[@FreshPresh8888]

A giant rubber mattress 💀💀💀 the comment section on this video is one of my favorite places now. Such unexpected belly laughs. 😂

[@faustinreeder1075]

Lol

[@KutsuuG]

Why am I imagining a water bed made out of a sunfish now?

[@Guru_1092]

*A B S O L U T E* *U N I T*

[@diegoferreiro9478]

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.

[@maythesciencebewithyou]

The german name for it also means moon fish

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Nobody cares about spanish go listen to bad bunny

[@alveolate]

well, it's DEFINITELY mooning everyone with its curvy bottom!

[@jaxsazerac4904]

It looks like the man in the moon or looks like it could have been made from the moon.

[@periwinkleqiao]

in polish its called "just a head" BFBBZHFNF

[@AidansGuide2DnD]

So in a way, they DO get energy from the sun by using it to heat themselves. I love this fish

[@thedailymoon8333]

The level of disrespect towards sunfish in the first few minutes was perhaps the most hilarious thing I've ever witnessed (so far on the internet today)...

[@dion2630]

Me: " There are plenty of fish in the sea" The fish:

[@GridSeer]

Don't be meannnnn

[@artisticyeti22]

​@@GridSeer😂

[@izzybelle]

:(

[@LizziesLukas]

AH... Plenty of Fish, that weird dating site once so popular

[@user-yy1rs3df3q]

👁👄👁

[@kitkat5765]

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.

[@wolftalon9129]

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

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Dont let her look at disabled children

[@redplanet7163]

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 😂

[@maolcogi]

Such a goofy fish, but also really cool at the same time. I have a new favorite fish, because normal things are boring.

[@kingofcrunk4237]

I love what the little ones look like - I did imagine they'd be weird looking, but nothing prepared me for the little spiky love balls.

[@aanchaallllllll]

0:32: 🐟 The ocean sunfish, also known as the mola, is a strange-looking fish that is the heaviest bony fish in the world and has unique behaviors. 3:58: 🐠 The ocean sunfish, or mola, is a unique fish with large fins and a rigid body that moves slowly. 7:15: 🐟 Sunfish go deep into cold water to forage for gelatinous plankton, even though it poses a risk to their body temperature. 11:39: 🐟 Sunfish, also known as Mola mola, can achieve neutral buoyancy without a swim bladder due to their dense and buoyant hypodermis tissue. 13:53: 🐟 The Mola Mola fish is a strange and fascinating creature with unique adaptations for survival. 17:02: 📰 The article discusses media bias and how readers can identify it using tools like a web browser extension, and emphasizes the importance of being aware of bias trends in news reporting. Recap by Tammy AI

[@n3lis94]

Did you mean 0:32: Wee a witnisin a baby f*cking whale right hear dude!

[@ericjohnson8001]

A BILLION friggin ova?? That's the craziest fish story I've ever heard....these things must just squirt eggs24\7 -- just swimming around spawning

[@RS14988]

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.

[@thatonejester3387]

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

[@KooriPlays]

“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.

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Love filling out job applications instead bum gamer

[@gabrielclark1425]

I bet that Mola is _really_ enjoying that flashlight during it's deep dives.

[@joshriley2936]

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.

[@mnxs]

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.

[@Jar_Jar_Twinks]

@@10dhs-tc9pm you liked your own comment and have an ai generated pfp babe, maybe don't insult people 💔

[@Llamaguru]

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!

[@charlessarver1637]

Awsome

[@JD-cg8it]

Damn that's dope

[@Unknown17]

It was carefully studying you and your board, wondering if you had any adaptations it could incorporate into its next weird biology update.

[@treeaboo]

@@Unknown17 "Those hand things look useful, I'll add those in the next patch"

[@ronaldpokatiloff5704]

A computer made all life. DNA code comes from outside the universe.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

I hope the rest of the video explains how awesome and complex these guys actually are, because the first two minutes so far are such a no holds barred roast that I'm starting to feel bad for them 😭 "Its stupid-looking deformed body and all of its weird flopping around on the surface" like, dang lmao. Edit: "In normal fish..." at 4:00 is probably the most discreetly savage line of them all

[@Thurston86]

“Aggressively farting out the gas”. Too bad we don’t have any video footage of this heroic feat. 😂

[@brunol-p_g8800]

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.

[@MeanBeanComedy]

Nothing like seeing a shark when you're in the water to make you feel alive! 😁👍🏻

[@pluspiping]

An apex predator to be sure, but just not the one they were expecting

[@keeratijirananutwinyu8339]

felt for his life by sun fish

[@The_Jiant]

Bet he was relieved when he saw that derpy looking mother fucker instead of a shark.

[@yousifmq]

This is so weird 😂

[@velvety2528]

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!

[@flufffycow]

Was your first thought to break down the fish and leave it depressed.

[@jimmytran5971]

🧢

[@Idkmanihatethis]

Were you traumatized?

[@velvety2528]

@@jimmytran5971 no cap bro

[@TheCrescentLune]

That's amazing! To see one in person. Hope you were able to get photos!

[@xyz7572]

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

[@khrystree9233]

I remember seeing old line drawings of this fish and being amazed. Plus is has a permanently astonished expression ( like me )

[@clairvaux8459]

The sunfish may not be very edible but that did not stop her from absolutely roasting it 😭

[@b10-flojomhonjoea.51]

she just straight out called the fish stupid, heck even its existence

[@KoldBreeze]

I'm still laughing at that 🤣🤣🤣

[@arkrowitz]

Wonderful video, well presented, interesting and with a great sense of humor. A great way to learn. Thanks!!

[@annanardo2358]

They are what they are, nature made. No need to tear down their physiology just because they are different. Every living entity is beautiful in their own way.

[@doggo7078]

The sunfish is like one of those school projects that you do the night before and somehow it clutches a 5

[@edwardbrock3807]

The stingray was my last min savior. Jus pull open a wire coathanger, wrap in paper and voila!

[@wxlurker]

“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.

[@SUPERSTUDIO17]

This was SOOOO FASCINATING. I'm honestly shoook. Thank you!

[@davidewing9088]

Both this article and your highlighting Ground News is impressive

[@wheelchair_charlie]

"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!

[@cannibal.warrior]

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 😂

[@Joe_Bidens_hair_fetish]

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

[@kiki29073]

​@@cannibal.warriorThat's what it sounded like to me also. Lol

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Npc🤖

[@dsandoval9396]

The east coast accent makes it so much more funnier 😂😂😂

[@phillipthomas1379]

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.

[@mrpickles-hb6zx]

Heheheheh *wet slimy deck* hehehehhe *6 men* aheeeehehe😁

[@phillipthomas1379]

@@mrpickles-hb6zx (Grandpa) "Mr. Pickle! It was him!"

[@brandhark7935]

You were a commercial fisherman in Nebraska? I’m guessing you didn’t do so hot…

[@opheliafinch4887]

@@brandhark7935 new england

[@gill426]

I'm really glad that you got it back into the water unharmed, these are such gentle giants! :)

[@SCWood]

Mola Mola genuinely seems like an unfinished prototype of a normal fish.

[@fishdemon666]

Sunfish share their bizarre vertical winged swimming pattern, known as "sculling" with other members of their order, Tetraodontiformes (triggerfish, puffers, etc). You can see a good example of some other sculling Tetraodonts by looking up "pelagic triggerfish". It might have been possible that sunfish have adapted their swimming style from an existence similar to these oceanic triggerfish. The dwarf mola, otherwise known as the slender sunfish, is a bizarre, high speed type of organism, and occupies a similar ecological niche as a mackerel. There's a video on them named "Mondfische (Ranzania lavis ?)" that shows them off really well.

[@trueopsimath]

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

[@benjaminrobinson3842]

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.

[@gildedpeahen876]

It’s so majestic the way they fly with their fin-wings

[@Peatingtune]

"How does such an awkward, slow-moving thing become so massive?" I feel personally attacked.

[@Macaf4r]

Yo I really enjoyed this video. The humor was good the information was good the background video was great like a funny animal planet documentary lol hope you never stop making these

[@brianthesnail3815]

I have a friend who is a diver on undersea pipelines, spends his life in diving bells. One day, he was walking along the seabed in the zero visibility and collided with one of these sun fish resting on the sea bed. He said it was like walking into a wall that suddenly swam away!

[@countessk]

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!

[@10dhs-tc9pm]

Nobody scared of u cat pfp cornball only thing u fighting are the thoughts to mcnutt urself😹

[@Luspenchief]

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.

[@Erika-up6iq]

Agreed. I laughed when she said that.

[@johnreese7973]

11:17 for the perfect repeating

[@nicholaspelz9422]

I've seen these fish in person out on the ocean, and they are truly incredible.

[@deckardcanine]

"Sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this earth." Amen!

[@NoelMcGinnis]

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.

[@mtwata]

"sometimes being weird is the best way to exist on this Earth". Thank you. Someone finally understands me

[@DjSaltyNuhts]

I remember 23 years ago, asking a worker at the Monterey Bay Aquarium that I heard they used to have a sunfish and they told me no they never did. It feels sooooo good knowing I was right all along

[@koogle612]

I went fishing out of bodega bay Ca about 5 yrs ago? I see these all the time but on this particular day the Capt (Rick) spotted a pair so turned toward them as the 65 ft boat eased up along them we got some phenomenal pictures. the 2 were each 8ft or larger and around 1000 lbs each. They have these very ethereal big blue eyes. With a single flush of their fins they effortlessly turned into a graceful slow dive. Pretty amazing creatures.

[@andyroo3022]

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.

[@secretagent4610]

Aww, that's so cute. And that sunfish has never forgotten that weird creature that fed it that tasty food that one time.

[@andyroo3022]

@@secretagent4610 Ha, I am definetly a weird creature. I hope that a lot of its billion eggs grew into more big sunfish.

[@Kurayamiblack]

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...

[@ally3186]

That's insane my dude, and I get ur prespective u described the scene so well

[@lorinbridges6699]

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

[@laurah2831]

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

[@jeffreyday2414]

A very large one (7x6 ft) hung out with us for 15 - 20 minutes in Elkhorn Slough on Monterey Bay, Calif. Got excellent video.

[@johnsullivan6560]

Great information, really good video! Thank you.

[@wayne9094]

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 .

[@Doc_Aspy]

Best tall fish tale lol

[@Goremachine]

You’re not supposed to put spaces before periods, just after.

[@wayne9094]

@@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]

If I'm your coworker I will ask the brand of 20lb line. That's one hell of a 20lb line haha

[@wayne9094]

@@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.

[@--rashid--1956]

Fish said:👁️👄👁️

[@kyliecunnington7711]

👁O👁 Sorry I had to..

[@AudoricArt]

more like: 🧿👄🧿

[@i571d]

Lol

[@Rambl3On]

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.

[@henryparks4602]

I never thought I would see a sunfish dashcam in my life - it did not disappoint

[@rollfizzlebeef6619]

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

[@moorflower4118]

These are the nature videos I've been craving, thank you so much

[@micahfoley9572]

Can confirm, Ground News is actually really good.

[@TinkerManMick]

Love the way you present this like a regular person, very easy to understand and the way you describe this fish had me laughing 😂

[@vice.nor.virtue]

I like her because she seems kind of pissed off at whatever she's explaining.

[@geoffbuck6890]

sorry but I find her irritating…

[@haveawonderfulday661]

fun fact: in German the sunfish is called Mondfisch (moonfish)

[@MrHyperpolyglot]

Really? ☺

[@haveawonderfulday661]

@@MrHyperpolyglot yes, really ^^

[@SsjRedneck]

Any specific reason for the name change?

[@gdcuaer4076]

Wait lol, why?

[@saelesbonsazse9919]

Here in Brazil, also: "Peixe Lua" ( moon fish)

[@isham2044]

I like how nearly every video Ive watch about the sunfish on YT starts with people roasting the hell out of its looks

[@KGshink]

This is peak fish design. I am now fish-pilled thank you

[@bryan-nz]

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.

[@Fabiani930]

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]

@@Fabiani930 Sounds gross. The videos even said they are greasy/fatty blobs!

[@Fabiani930]

@@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

[@bedtimerat]

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.

[@AdaptiveApeHybrid]

​@michaelkrynski7793 it's considered a delicacy and is said to taste like crab or lobster 🤣

[@alexrogers777]

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

[@FromRussia_With_Love]

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?

[@TwitchCronos100]

@@FromRussia_With_Love enormous sphere shaped, mouth breather and swim in grease all day, I can see how some humans can relate lmao.

[@asterlyons8564]

​@@FromRussia_With_Loveno I just look kinda silly

[@FromRussia_With_Love]

@@TwitchCronos100 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.

[@pabloortiz3821]

Great info thanks.

[@bcano9126]

Such a kind face, but so clearly scarred.

[@LisaApril]

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.

[@devinanderson6716]

That first two minutes was an emotional roller coaster

[@cccspwn]

Yea must be a Monday

[@hoale811]

Great work

[@AnObscureWord]

One thing I really like about this channel is that it shows how rational the world is, even if it's not always apparent at first

[@D.H.1082]

Lawful is the word I would use. We think of the universe as chaos, which is pretty much true. But there must always be an opposing force. And life is the Order to the Chaos. Throughout the history of Earth, all life has followed the same path. Until we were born anyway. >Be born >Survive to maturity >procreate >die

[@BlazingBlackMage]

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.

[@krowodom5719]

Lol like the RV of the ocean.

[@LivingParadox87]

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?”

[@VinwardWasHere]

“Omg it’s a baby whale” 😭😭

[@-xirx-]

A Baby Wheel in the wild!

[@alexandermills92]

How the heck did you find her voice amazing? Jesus Christ

[@NotoriusThorius]

It makes you wonder why a slow-moving creature, with an absolute abundance of eggs, doesn't have a massive entourage of smaller fish around them waiting to feast on the eggs, or for protection from their own predators that don't eat sunfish. Of course, given how bizarre they are, maybe the repeated dives are a way to ward off the groupies (with swim bladders) from just waiting for the one billion egg feast.

[@rosemarybailey8364]

I love them so much they make me so happy they are my favorite fish

[@NickLavic]

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.

[@stardragon5849]

Same here

[@Hans_von_Kreit]

Yepp

[@jagirl966]

Mine was Alomomola from Pokémon.

[@razorbackroar]

same

[@st.haborym]

Truth is stranger than fiction, art imitates life, etc. etc.

[@stevenmossner9667]

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.

[@luna-p]

They're harmless... what about the freaking jellyfish??

[@skypilot23]

your voice modulation is very nice- and it never "breaks" at the end of statements very soothing

[@mcbrite]

0:02 Ahahahaha, I have that SAME. EXACT memory! Magazine was at my grandma and grandpa's house and I was fascinated with that picture!

[@morganstauter8660]

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

[@bedtimerat]

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 😅

[@NikaKochetkova]

Same! I was trying to remember the game’s name for ages 🫣🫣

[@bedtimerat]

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]

We want some sunfish facts-what makes you say our ecosystem would be in shambles without them?

[@plootyluvsturtle9843]

@@Badger3Yes! we want sunfish facts

[@bedtimerat]

@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).

[@bedtimerat]

@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!!

[@tahataseenocean8300]

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.

[@minimanimoo8715]

they're so silly i love them

[@TheRox0923]

"Aggressively farting out the gas" is one of the funniest phrases I've heard

[@5hank3r]

She scientifically roasted it for so long, I had to double check the channel name

[@claudeJUNIOR]

In Brazil it's called "Peixe Lua" that means "Moonfish".

[@marcusmiro2171]

Kkkkkkkkkkkk tem que marcar o Putones pra ver esse vídeo e ver se o ódio dele pelo peixe lua diminue

[@gageadavis]

Seeing on of these “Mola Mola” while scuba diving in Bali was mesmerising… they’re even crazier looking in person

[@annavizard970]

So surreal, and it was always my favorite fish at the aquarium.

[@DomyTheMad420]

"this is the dumbest fish ever" 15 minutes later "this may be the most perfect fish ever."

[@EJD339]

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.

[@christinacalzacorta5123]

I'd call that a ship of fools....😒

[@EJD339]

@@christinacalzacorta5123lol that’s actually really funny

[@gavinlew8273]

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.

[@EJD339]

@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

[@mnxs]

​@@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.

[@squidy_199]

seeing a morish idol and emperor angels swimming beside was awesome

[@chocoboko123]

I've loved this fish since finding it in Endless Ocean for the wii. I honestly thought it was beautiful and majestic, definitely one of my favorite fishes

[@TakenTook]

I always assumed they were called "sunfish" because their bodies were relatively round in profile, kind of like the sun. Before watching this video, it never occurred to me that they were called that because people mistakenly thought they got energy from the sun.

[@larsg.2492]

Debateable. 😄 In other languages they are oftentimes called Moonfish, because their profile with the fins somewhat resembles a crescent moon. 😉

[@zawarudo1041]

wel, technically it isnt inaccurate - they still need sun to warm them, thus getting energy from sun

[@jamesblake7338]

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!

[@CordeliaWagner]

Fidhing like unaliving other fish? Why do you admire one species but undo others?

[@jamesblake7338]

I have no idea what you are trying to say lol

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@CordeliaWagner You sound like another annoying vegan.

[@williamcooper5793]

@@jamesblake7338 did it interact with you or just look at you

[@The-Floor.]

​@@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

[@rjarpa]

"Being weird to survive"... my spirit animal !

[@mbxtreme1]

Very good video and educational. I have always wondered about these fish.

[@sommeone]

This feels like a poster child for a TierZoo F tier

[@kuromyou7969]

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