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A giant sunfish weighing more than 6,000 lbs is the heaviest bony fish ever found, researchers say A massive sunfish reeled in near Portugal just broke the world record for the largest bony fish ever caught. Weighing in at 6,049 pounds and measuring about 12 feet tall and 11 feet long, this giant sunfish is three times the size of an adult rhino and beat the previous record for the largest bony fish ever caught by almost 1,000 pounds.  A 6,000-pound sunfish was discovered off the coast of Portugal last year – and scientists now say it is the heaviest bony fish in the world. Researchers with Atlantic Naturalist Association were studying stranded large animals in the Azores, a region of Portugal, when they found a giant sunfish dead and floating near Faial Island. The fish was weighed with a crane scale, by raising it with a forklift truck for a few minutes in order to allow the exact measurements to stabilize, the researchers write in their study, published in the Journal of Fish Biolog