We’ve already explained in great detail that sunfish not only behave in the silliest way possible, but they also behave It’s a huge waste of energy🇧🇷 And recently, a pair of rowers suspected they had stumbled upon the biggest one ever recorded.
Rich German and Matt Wheaton were kayaking in Laguna Beach, Florida, when they came across a Naturally huge and strange sun fish.
The duo claim the animal looks like a “deformed shark, who bit off half of it‘, which well describes the quirky side of the species.
“My boyfriend Matt and I were just kayaking, and we found him (…). It was hard not to notice! He was 2 to 3 meters long, much bigger than me,” Rich told the Pen News content agency.
As Rich mentioned it already Saw many sunfish In the region, but this is “definitely the largest.”
Although to the surprise of experienced rowers, the potential record holds none Many opportunities to registerin which the fish must be taken out of the water, measured and weighed.
According to the Mirror tabloid, the largest sunfish on record was found in 1996 off the coast of Japan. It weighs 2,300 kg and is 2.4 meters long.
Since this species is the largest bony fish on the planet, the largest sunfish found would also be the largest bony fish found as well.
Sometimes these fish scare people away with their mere presence, as this case in the United States proved. to remember!
