August 15th, 2008 
I came across these pictures from Fogonazos. Be sure to go over there for a great article about Mola Mola, the giant ocean sunfish, with about 2 dozen more pictures!
Now that’s a whole lotta Mola! Read Fogonazos to see why you might not want to eat its flesh though.
From the Fogonazos link, “Finally, the flesh of the ocean sunfish contains neurotoxins similar to those of other poisonous tetraodontiformes, but it is considered a delicacy by some people.” Have we finally discovered the reason why — as per the Fish Guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4smMyPNcA0) — that they “taste like ass”?
Happy fish Fridays, folks.
I love one of the German names for the mola: schwimmender Kopf.
I wrote a post on my blog a couple of months ago, about a paper on the daily swimming patterns of mola; there’s also a bit about the phylogeny of Molidae.
Link!
Woo. Have you guys seen this picture of a huge manta ray being trawled and someone is riding it like they were from fantasy story
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/08/12/trawling-for-giants/
Ooops!
my mola post
When it comes to molas, I look to Tierney Thys. She has this great site at Oceansunfish.org, and has a tracking project going on. I still haven’t found any mola mola in Minnesota, but I will call her as soon as I see one.
As far as their body style, I would say that they are the AMC Gremlin of the ocean.
thats abig fish! You read about the sizes in books, but its not until you see photo with a human for scale you see HOW big