Date uploaded: 2022-10-22 23:11:13

A team of scientists in Portugal say they discovered the heaviest bony fish in the world in the Azores archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. The giant sunfish, weighing a little more than 3 tons, was discovered dead in the water last December, researchers said. A team with the Atlantic Naturalist Association, a Portuguese ocean conservation organization, helped bring the massive creature to land. It was 10.6 feet long and weighed about 6,050 pounds, according to the research paper, published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. 📸 Photo courtesy of the Atlantic Naturalist Association