The Insane Biology of: The Sunfish

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

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

Man those first 2 minutes were PERSONAL

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.

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

Bro he’s just a fish stop bullying him 😂

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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)...

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.