Thursday, October 21, 2004
Monster from the deep
Seems a massive, 3 metre long sunfish has washed up at the top of the South Island. The sunfishes, Mola spp. are related to pufferfishes and the sort of funny looking boxfishes Although the unfortunate one in the news story looks a little incongruous they are quite beautiful in their environment. While I'm linking like crazy check out this sunfish larva: cuter than nemo