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2020年7月27日—Tinylarvalsunfishlooknothingliketheadults....biggestfishes—themola,orsunfish—andtheyoungsterissosmallthatyoucouldeasilyfita ...

Scientists have identified the babies of one of the worlds biggest fishes — the mola, or sunfish — and the youngster is so small that you could easily fit a dozen of them on your fingertip.

Adult sunfish are the heaviest bony fish in the world, measuring up to 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing more than 4,400 lbs. (2,000 kilograms). They are also bizarrely shaped; adults resemble enormous, flattened pancakes topped by a massive dorsal fin like a sharks. Their bodies are unusually short and have no tail fin, as most fish do. Instead, sunfish have a long structure at their rear end known as a clavus, which extends downward and resembles a boats rudder.

But mola babies are a different story. As larvae, they measure just a few millimeters in length and their bodies look nothing like those of adults. Because of that, scientists struggle to match larvae with the correct species of mola. But...