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[Funky Papa]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3070756a10,00.html

A sunfish that washed up near the base of Farewell Spit is a monster with a strange sense of timing, a marine expert says.

Freaky.

 

[Socreges]

Why do they call it a "Monster" if it is a "Sunfish"?

Are sunfishes a species or a group? Because I've heard of sunfishes, but haven't seen ANYTHING like this one.

 

[nitewulf]

fucking big. a french biological experiment gone wrong?

 

[Dyne]

Aren't they naturally big or something? Looking through google..

 

[Randam_Hajile]

That's pretty creepy looking...

 

[sc0la]

http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html

They are always big aparently. I would shit myself if I saw one in the water though. scary

 

[Gek54]

I saw one while snorkleing off the coast of Kawaii but it wasnt near that big. It was about my size which was still a little freaky.

 

[AniHawk]

I saw one while snorkleing off the coast of Kawaii but it wasnt near that big. It was about my size which was still a little freaky.

I think I saw one of those scorpion fish/stone fish while I was snorkeling off Maui 8 years ago and it scared the living hell out of me because I knew how deadly they are.

Seeing a sunfish would sure scare me if I saw it in the water (and I was in the water). Don't think it's anything to be worried about though.

 

[ralphwiggum]

i have to ask - what does a fish that big eat??

 

[Burger]

i have to ask - what does a fish that big eat??

Soylent Green ?

 

[Freestyler]

NZ REPRESENT!!!! WOOOOHOOOO!

I feel sorry for the poor fish

 

[AniHawk]

i have to ask - what does a fish that big eat??

Smaller sea life.

Biggest fish evar, right there.

 

[Hitokage]

Only if you consider sharks as proper fish.

 

[Socreges]

Sharks are in a completely different Class from fish. Chondrichthyses!

I still regret taking Biology.

 

[ElyrionX]

Smaller sea life.

Biggest fish evar, right there.

I have always imagined how incredibly scary it must be to swim naked right beside one of these. Imagine if you were stranded in sea and one of these huge-ass whales comes along......

 

[demi]

what are you doing naked anyway?

 

[Cutley]

Soylent Green ?

Soylent Green is people!!!!!!!!

 

[etiolate]

When I was younger I always mixed up Soylent Green with Simple Green. So people would be like "What is Soylent Green?" and I'd say "Oh I wash the car with that stuff". The looks I got were strange.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I like to say that nothing really scares me, but the more I think about it, that's a lie. The ocean in general can be a very frightening place.

 

[LizardKing]

"Graaaagh! Soylent green let me eat you!"

 

[Jill Sandwich]

"This sunfish is delicious!"

 

[sprsk]

it looks like it has ears and teeth.

 

[revivalist]

Imagine if those things were carnivorous.

 

[Cauliflower of Love]

it looks like it has ears and teeth.

It sure does, there's a fish in the "Finding Nemo" dvd making of part that looks like it has a nose...and lips...and eye brow ridge....that shit is scary =(.

 

[Oni Link 666]

I remember when one of these things washed up in a WWE ring.

 

[MrPing1000]

mmm fishy

 

[Shouta]

Now I know where they got the idea for that Kirby character...

 

[Axsider]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3070756a10,00.html

Freaky.

WTF? Never saw something like that before in my life! Sunfish?? .....arrrggh!!

 

[Dujour]

Me - 100
Nightmares +100

 

[Overseer]

Ok. Next time I "EVER" go swimming, I am encasing myself with suit of armor and my will and testament.

 

[Mermandala]

is that fish smoking a calabash pipe? class.

 

[Cimarron]

i have to ask - what does a fish that big eat??

And I have to ask. "Does it taste good with tatar sauce?"

 

[Particle Physicist]

When I was younger I always mixed up Soylent Green with Simple Green. So people would be like "What is Soylent Green?" and I'd say "Oh I wash the car with that stuff". The looks I got were strange.

..***

so you had people constantly asking you if you knew what soylent green was?

 

[Escape Goat]

"Arrrr, matey. We dont be talkin' bout that thar sunfish. No sirrr."

 

[Dram]

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

From this picture you can clearly see how the Sunfish preys on it's daft and unsuspecting victims. By using it's incredibly powerful suction ability it sucks the innards out of its prey via it's mouth leaving a hollow shell of goop and bones behind.

 

[Ripclawe]

I have always imagined how incredibly scary it must be to swim naked right beside one of these. Imagine if you were stranded in sea and one of these huge-ass whales comes along......

seen a couple of shows where people swam with whale sharks and it was okay, just look out for the tail hitting.

 

[BigGreenMat]

Seriously that fish looks an awful lot like a lot of those scary videogame characters that are sort of just diembodied floating heads!! Oh and Sharks are proper fish. Modern fish are are actually much more 'new' so to speak in a sense that a lot of the features they have only evolved recently while sharks are a far more ancestral design. Still sharks fall into the clade of what fish are.

 

[pestul]

Argh.. looks like something that should be in Silent Hill.

 

[Gek54]

Why isnt she jumping on it?

 

[SlickWilly223]

I thought sun-fish were the little fish that I used to catch in the local river??

Unless those were "Sunnys" or something

 

[Spike Spiegel]

Why isnt she jumping on it?

Yeah, that'd be cool. She jumps on it, and it bursts like an overripe melon.

 

[Phoenix]

And I have to ask. "Does it taste good with tatar sauce?"

This man knows the right question

 

[talking head]

holy fuck imagine walking down the beach by yourself one day and coming across that.

 

[Particle Physicist]

Seriously that fish looks an awful lot like a lot of those scary videogame characters that are sort of just diembodied floating heads!! Oh and Sharks are proper fish. Modern fish are are actually much more 'new' so to speak in a sense that a lot of the features they have only evolved recently while sharks are a far more ancestral design. Still sharks fall into the clade of what fish are.

still.. that pic is of a whaleshark.. i.e. a whale.. not fish.

 

[Darias]

Yes the pic is of a whaleshark. The whaleshark is a non-carniverous shark. Not a whale.

Whales are mammals, jaws is not. Therefore, whaleshark is more like fish than whale.

*convoluted-I-got-up-at-5am-logic*

TYVM!

 

[Dead]

Jesus, who knows what other monstruosities lay beneath the depths that we have never seen before

 

[BigJonsson]

Once I was swimming at a beach in Fort Lauderdale and I was just kinda floating in the shallow water and an angel fish swam by me and I got up and ran like hell cause I was so startled

 

[nitewulf]

it doesnt look scary though, its just big. do you guys get scared by elephants and hippos as well?

 

[robochimp]

it doesnt look scary though, its just big. do you guys get scared by elephants and hippos as well?

You should be scared shitless of a hippo. They will kill you