Fun Facts
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Ocean Sunfish are primarily comprised of collagen, which is an extremely energy efficient molecule to produce and make.
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Ocean Sunfish eat jellyfish which take part in the Diel Vertical Migration (DVM). In order to eat the jellyfish Ocean Sunfish down between 20m to 800m below the surface (reference).
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Ocean Sunfish grow exponentially fast, with one young specimen at the Monterey Bay Aquarium growing from 26 to 399 kg (57 to 880 lbs) and reaching a height of nearly 1.8 m (5 ft 11 in) in 15 months (reference).
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Females can produce more eggs than any other known vertebrate — up to 300 million at a time (reference).