This is the story of how a massive, strange-looking fish wound up on a beach in California -- the other side of the world from where it's usually found. It turned out to be a species never seen before in North America.
This is the extraordinary tale of how a massive, strange-looking fish wound up on a beach on the other side of the world from where it lives.
The seven-foot fish washed up at UC Santa Barbara's Coal Oil Point Reserve in Southern California last week. Researchers first thought it was a similar and more common species of sunfish -- until someone posted photos on a nature site and experts weighed in.What transpired after that surprised researchers from California to Australia and New Zealand.It turned out to be a species never seen before in North America. It's called the hoodwinker sunfish.
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