Odd-Looking Fish that Washed Ashore in Oregon is Newly Discovered Species

An odd-looking fish whose corpse washed ashore in Northern Oregon is a member of a newly discovered and rare species of sunfish called the hoodwinker sunfish (Mola tecta), according to a local aquarium that posted the news on Facebook. The previously unknown variety of flat, circular fish was first documented by a New Zealand researcher named Mariann Nyegaard, who published a paper on the animal in 2017. “This fish, hiding in plain sight, has most likely been seen/washed ashore in the Pacific Northwest before but was mistaken for the more...