Beachgoers in the San Francisco Bay Area encountered a rare hoodwinker sunfish washed ashore on a beach on Sept. 7.

One morning a week, Stefan Kiesbye makes the drive from his home in Santa Rosa to one of the beaches around Bodega Bay, to pick up trash. After dropping his wife at an airport shuttle early Sunday ...

Doran Beach is a pillar of Sonoma County, welcoming many campers, fishermen, and beachgoers daily. Earlier this month, an unexpected visitor arrived on its shores. “I was picking up something, and ...

A California beachcomber stumbled upon one of the world’s rarest fish species washed ashore at Bodega Bay on Sunday.

A SIGHTING of ocean sunfish, or locally known as Mola-mola, in the Talima Marine Sanctuary signals that Lapu-Lapu City’s conservation efforts have slowly brough ...

Park visitors were peering at the water near a California jetty when something caught their eye: large gray creatures lurking below. Fearing the animals may be sharks, multiple visitors called Sonoma ...

A weird-looking, enormous sunfish was discovered by two fishermen on the shore at Coorong National Park in South Australia over the weekend. The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) was spotted at the mouth of ...

Gray whale sightings near Depoe Bay are common. Nicknamed the “whale watching capital of the Oregon Coast,” the area serves as a feeding and resting stop for hundreds of whales during their ...

The hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, can weigh as much as 4,400 pounds and can grow up to nine feet long "It was so enormous and so weird and gorgeous. It's like suddenly you're on another planet," ...

Could be fishing for compliments. Two rare, large and odd-looking fish washed up on a beach in California this past weekend — with lucky witnesses reveling in the “gorgeous” otherworldly sighting. The ...