The curious creature washed up along the beach of a coastal nature preserve near Santa Barbara on Feb. 2019. But researchers are still trying to find out why the weird fish ended up thousands of miles from home.
to iNaturalist, a social platform that allows users to map and share observations.
Not only are sunfish heavy, but they grow rapidly, putting on up to 800 pounds in 15 months, Thys said. Their skin, like white coconut meat, can be more than an inch thick. They’re also the only known example of an animal that has vertically oriented wings. They don't even have a tailfin – it's more of a rudder.
Finding the fish itself was much harder: It took Nyegaard more than a year to locate it, eventually finding one on the beach in Christchurch, New Zealand. She named the fishThe hoodwinker is likely smaller than its sister species, which can grow up to nearly 11 feet and nearly 5,000 pounds, Nyegaard said. The largest hoodwinker on record is nearly 8 feet tall and dates to the 1960s.
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