Surprise on an Australian beach: it looked like a rock or a sculpture but it was a monstrous fish

It's a curious fish. It's English is known as moon Fish (sunfish) for its habit of tanning on the surface of the sea to warm up, before diving into great depths. In Spanish, however, we call it moon Fish, for its rounded shape.

Anyway, his specimens, of different sizes, inhabit the warm waters of different parts of the world, but They are not usually in the sight of people near the coast. And less of falling on a dead on a beach.

Linette Grzelak counted in her Facebook that his partner was on a fishing trip with his coworkers at the mouth of the Murray River, in southern Australia, last weekend, when he saw what looked like a piece of ship failed, he said The Guardian. When he approached, he thought that it was a rock or a sand sculpture.

But when he arrived in front of him, he discovered that it was a monstrous moonfish more than 2 meters long.

Luna fish usually feed on jellyfish, but it's not common to see them in this area, said South Australian Museum collection director Ralph Foster.

The scientist explained that these huge fish can cause big damage to the boats that hit them offshore.

Last year, a yacht had to leave the Hobart regatta after the crash with a moonfish broke its rudder.