32. The 5,000lb Bone Fish
In 2017, researchers and scientists were amazed when a massive bonefish was caught. It was later determined to be from the Mola family, under the Mola Alexandrini name. This is a species of Ocean Sunfish. This massive fish weighed in at an astonishing 5,070lbs or 2,300 kilograms. While sunfish can grow to massive sizes at times, this is the biggest ever recorded.
Very little is still known of the species, as the first confirmed sighting of one wasn’t until 2013. The fact that these massive fish species could have been around for a long time and we just truly found out about them is scary. Perhaps some of those old sailer stories hold some truth to them. Something like this proves that amazing can occur at any time in our oceans.