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	Ocean Sunfish

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/132fc73b-1c18-4082-bdb7-eba81ba07c3c/84AB5D07-F1D4-405B-9A70-B8FE0EB73186/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ==" href="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ==" style="font-size: 11px;">www.montereybayaquarium.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ=="><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.montereybayaquarium.org/img/8BA2FAD7-C3EE-4645-9B36-12885A5E58F0" alt="Ocean Sunfish (Photo © Richard Herrmann)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ=="><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.montereybayaquarium.org/img/09166A9D-CC71-43E1-941F-7BC057793D8D" alt="Please note: In order to view this video you must have JavaScript enabled." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ=="><DIV>Ocean sunfish, or molas, look like the invention of a mad scientist.  Huge and  flat, these silvery-gray fish have tiny mouths and big eyes that vanish into an even bigger body with a truncated tail. Topping out around 5,000 pounds, the mola is the world’s heaviest bony fish. (That category doesn’t count sharks and rays. The whale shark is another 10 times bigger.) 
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</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/AnimalDetails.aspx?enc=WLDuKhvPtHEDQ6T8RvRcmQ==">They grow to a maximum of about 10 feet long and are often taller than they are long, up to 14 feet from dorsal fin tip to anal fin tip. They have a truncated tail fin referred to as a clavus—a scalloped fringe of muscle along their blunt rear end, which they use as a rudder.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/84AB5D07-F1D4-405B-9A70-B8FE0EB73186/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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