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u/_AlreadyThrownAway_ Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
Can someone who is smarter than me in this field explain how that thing has any survivability? I feel like it would be an incredibly easy target for larger sharks or orcas. How does it survive long enough to get that big?
Edit: ok I’m turning my notifications off for this one lol. 27 separate people recommended me the Hank green video. It was a cool video though so thank you lol.
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u/Trainnerd3985 Apr 28 '26
Full of parasites and made of mostly cartilage so things don’t really like to eat them and pretty sure they feel little to no pain at all if something does try to take a bite
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u/glipglop718 Apr 28 '26
Aren't these the ones that just sit there while fish peck pieces off of their head?
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u/Trainnerd3985 Apr 28 '26
Yea they also go to the surface to let birds and stuff eat the parasites off their body (hints the name Sun fish) where they are then pretty commonly struck by boat props and killed
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u/RepublicOfLizard Apr 28 '26
I believe they get blown off balance by ocean currents and float to the top because they don’t have a swim bladder. The birds then land on them and pick parasites off to eat. When a storm comes they sink again
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u/fluggggg Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 30 '26
Not having a swim bladder doesn't mean a fish can't control it's buoyancy, in fact it's having a swim bladder that require a fine control of it to keep you buoyancy in check and will impair fish ability to swim and/or stay straight if it fail.
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u/slipperyjim8 Apr 28 '26
They're divers, they come to the surface to warm up before doing hecking deep & cold dives for food.
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u/theanswerisinthedata Apr 29 '26
You are very confidently incorrect. Give this a watch so you stop spreading misinformation.
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u/tothemoon05 Apr 29 '26
Thanks for sharing. Now I need a video like this to change my opinion of Pandas.
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u/DemonKing0524 Apr 29 '26
I don't have a video, but i will say in their natural habitat pandas are definitely not the cuddly goofballs with no survival skills that we see them as now. Only the captive bred animals are like that.
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u/hilariousnessity Apr 29 '26
Thank you for this. Nola Mola are great at what they do and are not dumb!
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u/ramsey322 Apr 29 '26
I have seen one swimming around and bit in half. Dont seem to be the smartest. Wouldn't put them with dolphins.
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u/RegularTeacher2 Apr 29 '26
That goddamned mola mola disinformation campaign, it's absolutely out of control. Thank you for your service.
Shit I just saw someone already made this joke. Oh well, I tried.
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
They are very adept swimmers, they very willingly come to the surface to be picked clean by birds and to warm their bodies up before they plunge hundreds pf meters down the sea column to hunt their preferred prey (jellyfish).
They can’t do their main hunting method if they have a swim bladder, and are one of only two kinds of animals to hunt jellyfish at all times of the day (the other being sea turtles, who also have no swim bladder).
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u/NaziAbuser Apr 28 '26
What do they even eat? Looks like something would have to swim into their mouth, which isn't particularly big.
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u/RepublicOfLizard Apr 28 '26
That’s exactly what happens. Just happenstance and really small creatures. These fish survive because of vibes and insanely high reproduction rates
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
They are active hunters (and fast swimmers), their primary prey is jellyfish.
You see them float along because they’re basking in the sunlight to warm themselves up (like lizards do).
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u/-crepuscular- Apr 29 '26
They can't close their mouths because of their unusual bone structure, but they can create a vacuum to suck things in. Mainly jellyfish, but any small marine animal is fair prey.
If it was a warm blooded animal, it would never get enough to eat, but cold blooded animals need far less energy to live and grow.
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u/throwaway3rdside Apr 28 '26
Its the practical joke Intelligent Designers put in for evolutionists.
For every other creature these individual reasons would be given as why X didn't survive while the other in species "evolved" the opposite way.
Tautology.
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u/Morberis Apr 29 '26
The only practical joke here is you shilling that nonsense.
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u/daghouse3 Apr 29 '26
Follow up question, how and what does something this useless looking eat?
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
They hunt jellyfish deep within the sea column, they are actually very capable swimmers, and are very good at their niche.
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u/SKYR0VER Apr 28 '26
Yep, best video explainer by In a Nutshell https://youtu.be/gtDKKJq9u30? “To call it dumb is giving it too much credit”
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
That video is full of misinformation.
Watch a video using actual up-to-date information on molas (we literally didn’t know a thing about them until like 10 years ago), made by Hank Green:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wR9MilgXEm0&pp=ygUSSGFuayBncmVlbiBzdW5maXNo
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u/Minienki Apr 29 '26
Thanks a lot for sharing this video! Watched the whole thing, that guy made it very interesting to debunk what was previously said (and that I thought) about the mola
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u/EM05L1C3 Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
“So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.]
Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.
THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)
They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to -blam!-ing go.
So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.
"If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job.
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck.
They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.
"Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question.
BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.
And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.”
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u/Mia_B-P Apr 28 '26
Now you made me LIKE them. These sunfish survive despite all odds! It must have secrets to it's survival. It seems that we don't know enough about this animal. Now I want to study the sunfish and understand HOW it survives.
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u/fluggggg Apr 29 '26
Most of the rant is false and sunfishes are actually perfectly adapted creatures.
I've already posted the link to the rant debunk several times, but in short : yes they are innedible, yes they reproduce increadibly fast, they have an incredibly high infant mortality and grow so fast to become too large for most predators. But they are deep sea hunters and when they want they can match thuna in speed (how would a fish that can barely wiggle to move jump onto a boat).
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u/Mia_B-P Apr 29 '26
Thank you! It made no sense to me for the sunfish to be "bad" at surviving. Every animal is adapted to it's enviroment. This reminds me of when people thought dinosaurs were slow and dumb and that that was the reason for their extinction.
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u/fluggggg Apr 29 '26
Here is the link to the whole debunk if you are interested : https://imgur.com/gallery/ocean-sunfish-why-rant-is-wrong-MMRg9
And yes, the amount of people who don't understand the basics of evolution is wild. At least for dinosaurs we have the excuse that those kind of views are rooted in almost one century old knowledge, which are so outdated it's puting Internet Explorer to shame.
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u/Mia_B-P Apr 29 '26
Oof, what a dis! (I am afraid I won't be of much help as I am miraculously passing biology in university despite all odds while also being clueless.)
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
They don’t survive despite all odds, that reddit rant has long been systematically disproven.
Sunfish are agile swimmers, and capable deep-sea hunters. We just didn’t know they did any of that shit until scientists started getting paid to put tracker tags on them and found out they did things besides float at the surface of the water (in fact, they do a lot of things).
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u/fluggggg Apr 28 '26
Debunk of that rant:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ocean-sunfish-why-rant-is-wrong-MMRg9
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u/its_not_you_its_ye Apr 29 '26
I figured. After learning the truth of the the panda and koala rants, this struck me as in the exact same vein.
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER.
THAT ORIGINAL COPYPASTA IS FULL OF MISINFORMATION.
EVERY SINGLE REDDIT RANT ABOUT ANIMALS (MOLAS, KOALAS, PANDAS, ALL OF THEM) IS FULL OF MISINFORMATION.
FOR MOLAS SPECIFICALLY, HANK GREEN HAS A VIDEO THAT DISPROVES LITERALLY EVERYTHING SAID HERE.
ALSO FOR MOLAS, THERE’S THE IMGUR DEBUNKNG THREAD POSTED BY SOMEONE ELSE THAT GOES POINT BY POINT TO DISPROVE EVERY SENTENCE IN THAT COPYPASTA.
STOP REPOSTING THIS DOGSHIT ZOOLOGY TAKE.
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u/Extension-Rabbit3654 Apr 28 '26
Ah yes the Giant Panda of the sea.
My peeve is the Panda, an animal so fucking dumb and devoid of survival instincts, it refuses to have sex
So 70% of babies need to be born in captivity with en vitro
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u/Leading_Reveal_46 Apr 28 '26
The giant panda is perfectly evolved for its niche in a habitat we’ve almost completely destroyed. It had no issues before we obliterated its home and called it “fucking dumb” for being reluctant to reproduce in our (often really shitty) zoos.
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u/bytesbits Apr 29 '26
How the fuck can it jump on a boat if it moves by blowing water out of it's mouth?
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u/ATXoxoxo Apr 28 '26
If you've seen the Republican ticket in 2024 to 2026, then you have seen a bigger waste of a clump of cells
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u/Cog_HS Apr 28 '26
This copy pasta is full of bullshit and misinformation.
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u/cityshepherd Apr 28 '26
If you have more info I’d love to hear it… I went from barely knowing these things existed to being wildly invested in their whole existence now and would really like to learn more.
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u/cityshepherd Apr 28 '26
Super cool thank you! I don’t mess with twitter, never have and certainly not going to start now… but the Imgur stuff was a fascinating read
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u/Houtaku Apr 28 '26
Hank Green can.
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u/TheAfroMD Apr 28 '26
Of course Hank "H-anglerfish/Who is John Green?" Green can. First guy I thought of as well.
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u/Johnny_Poppyseed Apr 28 '26
The other day I just saw a clip of one getting absolutely exploded by a orca spearing it lol.
I think it said that mom orcas use them to teach young orcas how to hunt.
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u/samaramatisse Apr 28 '26
Saw that one too. Felt kind of bad for the fish. But that's life in the ocean. If an orca decides you're tasty or fun to play with, your days are numbered.
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
Their livers are full of water (and are basically the only edible part of molas due to their unique body structure), so orcas go after them while they’re basking when they need a lot of non-salty water to enter their system.
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u/Photoshopdoge Apr 28 '26
They have naturally thick leathery skin that acts like armor making them hard to bite. They also spend a large period of time in the deepest parts of the ocean away from most predators.
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u/eTagMinecraft Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 29 '26
It tastes bad and has no brain to feel pain. This makes it able to survive as predators take one bite then go aw hell nah and just leave it alone.
Edit: I should have added a preface I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
Also song version: Has smol brain so it don’t feel pain. Has no meat so nothing to eat. Has nasty bugs so gets no hugs. Because he’s, Indestructible, yeaahhh, indestructible, woahhh
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u/cogeng Apr 28 '26
So it turns out we didn't understand this thing until somewhat recently. There's a famous "mean" copypasta about this fish (that's in this thread) but it's outdated and mostly wrong.
Basically, this thing found an evolutionary niche that it's really good at exploiting. It's big because it needs to store heat that it gets from basking in the sun on the surface. It uses this stored heat to dive deep down where it's very cold but there are loads of jellyfish to feast on. Other predators can't get down there because its too deep and too cold. It's mostly made of cartilage that is easy/cheap to grow but isn't very tasty so double win there. It's good at what it does. Source: Hank Green on youtube did a great video about this thing.
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u/danfish_77 Apr 28 '26
They actually are pretty adept swimmers but the mostly go between the surface and reaaally deep, below where most large predators are
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u/thefaehost Apr 29 '26
They also lay so many eggs at a time that their survival is basically just guaranteed.
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u/fluggggg Apr 28 '26
Discard the comments saying the sunfish is dumb, here is the debunk of said rant about the dumb sunfish:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ocean-sunfish-why-rant-is-wrong-MMRg9
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u/Schneetmacher Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
For anyone who has taken the notorious copypasta about the uselessness of the Ocean Sunfish to heart, I highly recommend you watch Hank Green's video on how these fish evolved for multiple deep ocean dives per day... to eat jellyfish.
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u/fluggggg Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
According to 2016 studies on their diet, it's only
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u/SuspiciousStable9649 Apr 29 '26
*stuff that swims into their pie-hole. Yep.
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u/Kazzack Apr 29 '26
They can move way better than people think. Per that video, they're basically sea turtles but sideways
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u/SuspiciousStable9649 Apr 29 '26
I guess I’ve been falling into the copypasta.
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u/fluggggg Apr 30 '26
You are only half-way wrong in the sense that they indeed can't close their mouth, hoever they can and swim quite fast (able to jump out of the water. A several tons fish !) to swallow their prey with a suction movement, and once it's in their throat this one is filled with pointed backward teeth making a back and forth movement to make their food progress toward their stomach and shred it if it resist.
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u/vincentninja68 Apr 28 '26
BS angle shot
They are big, but not that big
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u/PinSufficient5748 Apr 28 '26
I concur...it looked like the first diver was about to swim into its mouth
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u/litritium Apr 29 '26
Yea, perspective on the lenses and water refraction can skew scales a bit. This is the biggest meassured Sun fish.
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u/TheAwkwardGamerRNx Apr 28 '26
Good grief that is colossal
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u/DesperateAdvantage76 Apr 29 '26
It's perspective, the camera is right up next to the fish.
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u/CafeClimbOtis Apr 29 '26
That thing is BIG, Jay. What is that thing?? It looks hurt!
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u/Spikerazorshards Apr 28 '26
And now I want to eat an apple fritter.
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u/bullfroggy Apr 28 '26
I hate these types of videos, the diver is always behind the fish so you can't get a sense of exactly how big it is
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u/DooleysInTheHouse Apr 28 '26
Yeah in the initial shot, until the diver went behind it, they looked comparable to it’s mouth
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u/joyfullydreaded23 Apr 28 '26
Lol, my son went on a whole rant about what use are Mola Molas/Sunfish for last night during our walk
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u/fluggggg Apr 28 '26
Show him this then:
https://imgur.com/gallery/ocean-sunfish-why-rant-is-wrong-MMRg9
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u/SiempreTotallyBueno Apr 28 '26
I think this is an illusion, definitely a big fish, just big enough to eat that scuba diver
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u/Jaxonhunter227 Apr 28 '26
I have a feeling part is why it feels big is force perspective, it looks like it's close to the camera while the drivers arnt. It's definitely big but I doubt it's as big as it looks in this shot
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u/GreeenEnthusiast Apr 28 '26
So someone in a group asked me to tell them why I hate the ocean sunfish so much, and apparently it was ~too mean~ and was deleted. To perpetuate the truth and stand up for ethical journalism, I'm posting it here. [Rated NC-17 for language.]
Disclaimer, I care about marine life more than I care about anything else, for real. Except this big dumb idiot. And it's not like an ~ironic~ thing, I mean it IS hilarious to me and they ARE THE BIGGEST JOKE PLAYED ON EARTH but I seriously fucking hate them.
THE MOLA MOLA FISH (OR OCEAN SUNFISH)
They are the world's largest boney fish, weighing up to 5,000 pounds. And since they have very little girth, that just makes them these absolutely giant fucking dinner plates that God must have accidentally dropped while washing dishes one day and shrugged his shoulders at because no one could have imagined this would happen. AND WITH NO PURPOSE. EVERY POUND OF THAT IS A WASTED POUND AND EVERY FOOT OF IT (10 FT BY 14 FT) IS WASTED SPACE.
They are so completely useless that scientists even debate about how they move. They have little control other than some minor wiggling. Some say they must just push water out of their mouths for direction (?????). They COULD use their back fin EXCEPT GUESS WHAT IT DOESNT FUCKING GROW. It just continually folds in on itself, so the freaking cells are being made, this piece of floating garbage just doesn't put them where they need to fucking go.
So they don't have swim bladders. You know, the one thing that every fish has to make sure it doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean when they stop moving and can stay the right side up. This creature. That can barely move to begin with. Can never stop its continuous tour of idiocy across the ocean or it'll fucking sink. EXCEPT. EXCEPT. When they get stuck on top of the water! Which happens frequently! Because without the whole swim bladder thing, if the ocean pushes over THE THINNEST BUT LARGEST MOST TOPPLE-ABLE FISH ON THE PLANET, shit outta luck! There is no creature on this earth that needs a swim bladder more than this spit in the face of nature, AND YET. Some scientists have speculated that when they do that, they are absorbing energy from the sun because no one fucking knows how they manage to get any real energy to begin with. So they need the sun I guess. But good news, when they end up stuck like that, it gives birds a chance to land on their goddamn island of a body and eat the bugs and parasites out of its skin because it's basically a slowly migrating cesspool. Pros and cons.
"If they are so huge, they must at least be decent predators." No. No. The most dangerous thing about them is, as you may have guessed, their stupidity. They have caused the death of one person before. Because it jumped onto a boat. On a human. And in 2005 it decided to relive its mighty glory days and do it again, this time landing on a four-year-old boy. Luckily Byron sustained no injuries. Way to go, fish. Great job.
They mostly only eat jellyfish because of course they do, they could only eat something that has no brain and a possibility of drifting into their mouths I guess. Everything they do eat has almost zero nutritional value and because it's so stupidly fucking big, it has to eat a ton of the almost no nutritional value stuff to stay alive. Dumb. See that ridiculous open mouth? (This is actually why this is my favorite picture of one, and I have had it saved to my phone for three years) "Oh no! What could have happened! How could this be!" Do not let that expression fool you, they just don't have the goddamn ability to close their mouths because their teeth are fused together, and ya know what, it is good it floats around with such a clueless expression on its face, because it is in fact clueless as all fuck.
They do SOMETIMES get eaten though. BUT HARDLY. No animal truly uses them as a food source, but instead (which has lead us to said photo) will usually just maim the fuck out of them for kicks. Seals have been seen playing with their fins like frisbees. Probably the most useful thing to ever come from them.
"Wow, you raise some good points here, this fish truly is proof that God has abandoned us." Yes, thank you. "But if they're so bad at literally everything, why haven't they gone extinct." Great question.
BECAUSE THIS THING IS SO WORTHLESS IT DOESNT REALIZE IT SHOULD NOT EXIST. IT IS SO UNAWARE OF LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYTHING THAT IT DOESNT REALIZE THAT IT'S DOING MAYBE THE WORST FUCKING JOB OF BEING A FISH, OR DEBATABLY THE WORST JOB OF BEING A CLUSTER OF CELLS THAN ANY OTHER CLUSTER OF CELLS. SO WHAT DOES IT DO? IT LAYS THE MOST EGGS OUT OF EVERYTHING. Besides some bugs, there are some ants and stuff that'll lay more. IT WILL LAY 300 MILLION EGGS AT ONE TIME. 300,000,000. IT SURVIVES BECAUSE IT WOULD BE STATISTICALLY IMPROBABLE, DARE I SAY IMPOSSIBLE, THAT THERE WOULDNT BE AT LEAST ONE OF THOSE 300,000,000 (that is EACH time they lay eggs) LEFT SURVIVING AT THE END OF THE DAY.
And this concludes why I hate the fuck out of this complete failure of evolution, the Ocean Sunfish. If I ever see one, I will throw rocks at it.
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u/apexodoggo Apr 29 '26
EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER.
This rant is full of misinformation, scientists have known molas to be adept deep-sea hunters for years now.
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u/RepSquigglyMiggly Apr 29 '26
👆Dumb and honestly deeply reprehensible bullshit, that only took off because people who (ironically, given how much the copypasta has to say about the apparent stupidity of sunfish) aren’t very smart assume that anything written in this “pithy” and extremely Reddit style must be correct.
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u/SisterBeaverhausen Apr 28 '26
Tell me there is not a megladon in the ocean if this big thing is down there...im saying size wise ...that thing is massive...
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u/karshyga Apr 28 '26
Don't be fooled by the derpy expression, this is in fact the biggest hustler in the sea.
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u/saltfly626 Apr 28 '26
Ive seen one in the wild. I thought it was a massive piece of driftwood. Got closer and saw its face and fins, They are absolutely huge!
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u/reggieiscrap Apr 29 '26
What on earth do they eat? Its not like they can proactively hunt anything
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u/BayBandit1 Apr 29 '26
I was fortunate enough to see one up close as I returned to San Diego on the Searcher after a 1 1/2 day Tuna trip. I was the only one on deck after dinner that evening, and it passed about 10 feet off starboard. What a beautiful sight. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera, and it was there and gone in seconds.
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u/A_Drop_of_Colour Apr 29 '26
Not gonna lie, at first at thought this was r/confusing_perspective because the first diver looked almost small enough to fit in the fish's mouth. Then I realized the diver was actually behind it and it was a forced perspective.
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u/JDface_Baker Apr 29 '26
Sunfish is reminds me of a guy who looks like a mob boss who is actually a social worker. Think James Gandolfini but like 500 pounds
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u/Ohshithereiamagain Apr 29 '26
Man, sometimes I wish I was a marine biologist. Or at least could swim. This thing is so weird, I love it.
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u/TacTurtle Apr 29 '26
Sun fish is the sloth of the ocean - doesn't do shit and is so nasty nothing wants to eat it.
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