A 450-pound sunfish found washed ashore in North Carolina will be preserved for museum display. The sharptail mola sunfish was uncovered at Seaview Pier at North Topsail Beach on Nov. 30 after a local resident called the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries. The mola is just one of five species of sunfish in the world. It measured over 6 feet 8 inches from fin to fin, according to Lily Hughes, curator of ichthyology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and research assistant professor at North Carolina State University. It even took a horse scale at the College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State to weigh the monster. 📷 NC State College of Veterinary Medicine #northcarolina #raleigh #sunfish #fish