Boulder-sized sunfish washes ashore in Australia.
The 1.8 metre specimen -- believed to be a Mola Mola, or ocean sunfish -- came ashore near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia at the weekend.
"The amount of news and media from all over the world wanting to report it has been on another level," Linette Grzelak, who posted the image to Facebook, told AFP.South Australian Museum fish collection manager Ralph Foster said the fish was actually at the smaller end of the scale for the species. "I've actually had a good look at it, we get three species here and this is actually the rarest one in South Australian waters," Foster told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation .
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